---
title: '日清戰爭笑樂画會 (Comics of the Sino-Japanese War): 黄海のきづ and 尻へ帆 (Wounds of the Yellow Sea; Sails on the Rear)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/shoraku-gakai-yellow-sea-kiyochika-1895/
description: One uncut sheet of two comic panels from the series 'Comics of the Sino-Japanese War'.
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

[![日清戰爭笑樂画會 (Comics of the Sino-Japanese War): 黄海のきづ and 尻へ帆 (Wounds of the Yellow Sea; Sails on the Rear)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/shoraku-gakai-yellow-sea-kiyochika-1895.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/shoraku-gakai-yellow-sea-kiyochika-1895.jpg)

# 日清戰爭笑樂画會 (Comics of the Sino-Japanese War): 黄海のきづ and 尻へ帆 (Wounds of the Yellow Sea; Sails on the Rear)

One uncut sheet of two comic panels from the series 'Comics of the Sino-Japanese War'. Above, grinning Chinese sailors in queues eat beside wrecked warship hulls drawn with human limbs and mouths, captioned 'Wounds of the Yellow Sea'; below, fleeing soldiers carry junk sails on their backs under 'Sails on the Rear'. The mocking captions and distorted faces are the label: the enemy is presented as a joke rather than argued against.

- **Date:** May 1895
- **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914)
- **Made by:** Empire of Japan, commercial war-print publisher Fukuda Hatsujirō (Nihonbashi, Tokyo); artist Kobayashi Kiyochika
- **Region:** [East Asia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=east-asia)
- **Country:** [Empire of Japan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=empire-of-japan)
- **Medium:** [Print](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=print)
- **Issuer type:** [Media](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=media)
- **Regime:** [Meiji Japan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=meiji-japan)
- **Leader:** [Ito Hirobumi](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=ito-hirobumi)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Reassure](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=reassure)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Race and ethnicity](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=race-ethnicity)
- **Event:** [First Sino Japanese War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=first-sino-japanese-war)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division](https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009630477/), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (published 1895; LOC rights statement: no known restrictions on publication) Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1895; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-jpd-00972

## Text on the object

Original (Japanese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
日清戰爭笑樂画會

黄海のきづ

[right margin of upper panel, vertical] 東京 / 人形町通り / [illegible] / 板

日清戰爭笑樂画會

尻へ帆

[artist's signature, bottom right, illegible in scan] [red artist's seal]

[publisher's cartouche, bottom left] 明治廿八年[illegible]月[illegible]日印刷 全月[illegible]日發行 日本橋區長谷川町[illegible] 福田初次郎
```

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

```
Comics of the Sino-Japanese War

Wounds of the Yellow Sea

[right margin of upper panel] Tokyo / Ningyōchō-dōri / [illegible] / edition

Comics of the Sino-Japanese War

Sails on the Rear

[artist's signature, illegible] [red artist's seal]

[publisher's cartouche] Meiji 28 (1895), [illegible] month [illegible] day printed; same month [illegible] day published; Nihonbashi ward, Hasegawa-chō [illegible]; Fukuda Hatsujirō
```

Captions and series title are clear. The right-margin publisher line, the day/month digits and street number in the cartouche, and the signature are too small or cursive in the 1024-px scan to read with confidence and are not guessed. The title reading of the lower caption (尻へ帆) is the most likely of a cursive hand.

[← Le Traître: Dégradation d'Alfred Dreyfus (The Traitor: Degradation of Alfred Dreyfus), Le Petit Journal, 13 January 1895](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/le-traitre-petit-journal-dreyfus-1895/) [Kolonial-Ausstellung, Gruppe XXIII, Berliner Gewerbe-Ausstellung 1896 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berlin-kolonialausstellung-plakat-1896/)

## Using the same techniques

- [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking)
- [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling)
- [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (1746 · Name-calling, Transfer)
- [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking)
- [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)
- [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling)
- [Exit Liberté a la Francois! or Buonaparte closing the Farce of Egalité, at St. Cloud (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/exit-liberte-buonaparte-gillray-1799/) (Nov 21, 1799 · Name-calling)
- [Van Moscouw tot Elba moest ik wyken (From Moscow to Elba I had to give way), Napoleon caricature by Wijnand Esser](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/van-moscouw-tot-elba-napoleon-esser-1814/) (1814 · Name-calling)