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
- Made by
- Empire of Japan, commercial war-print publisher Fukuda Hatsujirō (Nihonbashi, Tokyo); artist Kobayashi Kiyochika
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Empire of Japan
- Medium
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Meiji Japan
- Leader
- Ito Hirobumi
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- War and the military, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- First Sino Japanese War
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, 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
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
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.
