Print from the series Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs
Kobayashi Kiyochika Japanese
Not on view
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.
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