'Hurrah, Hurrah for the Great Japanese Empire!'

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Remembering better days /s dealing with the infectious China scourge...

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"Hurrah, Hurrah for the Great Japanese Empire!" Picture of the Assault on Songhwan, a Great Victory for Our Troops” by Mizuno Toshikata, July 1894---These war prints were largely imaginative creations based on news reports.


53 Japanese war prints of the Sino-Japanese war
china-underground.com
...Although the Sino-Japanese War lasted less than a year (1894-95), woodblock artists produced around 3,000 works of images depicting the battlefront, approximately 10 new images every day.
The woodblock printing had been used in China for centuries to print books but was widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (1603-1868). It is best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre of single sheets and found its audience in the emerging class of city dwellers. The prints were neither costly nor meant to be preserved, but to amuse and entertain.
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