Content note: Nationalist portrait caption naming the Yellow Emperor as ancestor of the Chinese nation. This object is shown as it was published. Why
民報 Min Bao no. 1 (Tokyo, 26 Nov 1905): plate of the Yellow Emperor, 'the world's foremost great man of nationalism'
Frontispiece plate in the first issue of the Tongmenghui organ Min Bao: an oval portrait of the legendary Yellow Emperor (Huangdi) captioned 世界第一之民族主義大偉人黃帝, with 中國民族開國之始祖 beneath. The tell: the prestige of a founding ancestor is attached, by caption, to the paper's own programme of nationalism; the contents page pairs it with plates of Rousseau, Washington and Mozi.
- Date
- November 26, 1905
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Tongmenghui (Chinese Revolutionary Alliance), Min Bao, Tokyo
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Empire of Japan
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Meiji Japan
- Leader
- Katsura Taro
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- Tongmenghui Founding
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Internet Archive, Min Bao (Tokyo) archive collection (East Asia periodicals), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (US; published before 1931); IA item page has no rights line
Min Bao no. 1, Tokyo, 26 Nov 1905 (reprinted 8 Dec 1905); scan via Internet Archive.
Text on the object
世界第一之民族主義大偉人黃帝 (中國民族開國之始祖)
Huangdi (the Yellow Emperor), the world's foremost great man of nationalism. (The ancestor who founded the Chinese nation.)
Both lines are printed horizontally, to be read right to left. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
