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title: Djawa Baroe cover no. 23, "Tari meroentoehkan Amerika dan Inggeris" (A dance to bring down America and England), 1 December 1943
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/djawa-baroe-dance-bring-down-america-uk-cover-1943/
description: Magazine cover photograph of a young dancer in Javanese court costume and headdress drawing a bow, a Japanese rising-sun flag on a staff beside her…
section: Collection
---

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# Djawa Baroe cover no. 23, "Tari meroentoehkan Amerika dan Inggeris" (A dance to bring down America and England), 1 December 1943

Magazine cover photograph of a young dancer in Javanese court costume and headdress drawing a bow, a Japanese rising-sun flag on a staff beside her, under a cover line naming the pose a dance to bring down America and England. The tell is the borrowing: a traditional Javanese dance form and costume are put to the occupier's war message.

## Text on the object

Original (Indonesian (old spelling) and Japanese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
TARI MEROENTOEHKAN
AMERIKA DAN INGGERIS
ベィエイ ゲキメツ オドリ
20
sen
23
2603.12.1.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Dance to bring down America and England
[Japanese line: dance of annihilating America and Britain; katakana reading uncertain]
20 sen
No. 23
1 December 2603 (Japanese imperial year, 1943)
```

Read from the 960 px image. The katakana line is small and degraded; some characters and the dakuten are reconstructed from sense. Translation machine-made, not checked by a fluent reader.

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