Print from the series Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs
The propaganda print shown here was created at the height of the Russo-Japanese War, fought between the two expansionist imperial powers in 1904–5. Kobayashi Kiyochika, a major designer of woodblock prints, documented Japan’s rapid military and economic modernization and numerous wars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Inexpensive woodblock prints served as a vehicle for propaganda throughout this period.
Artwork Details
- 小林清親画 「日本万歳・百選百笑」より
- Title: Print from the series Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs
- Artist: Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847–1915)
- Period: Meiji period (1868–1912)
- Date: 1904–5
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: 14 1/2 x 9 7/8 in. (36.8 x 25.1 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959
- Object Number: JP3210
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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