Nihon banzai: Hyakusen hyakusho

Description This print, published in February of 1895, the month of China's surrender, shows the Chinese fleeing before the giant strides of the Japanese army. It is from a series of fifty prints created by Kiyochika over the course of the war which make fun of the Chinese enemy. Other prints from the series appear on the wall above.

Provenance Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Snell, Jr. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1991, by gift.

Inscriptions [Signature] Kiyochika

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Snell, Jr., 1991