{"product_id":"long-live-japan-one-hundred-victories-one-hundred-laughs-beware-beware-kobayashi-kiyochika-1847-1915-woodblock-print-1894","title":"\"Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs\" — Beware! Beware! Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847–1915) — Woodblock Print, 1894","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eA figure looms at the centre of the composition — robes billowing, eyes spiralling in panic, mouth open in a wide red cry — while smaller figures gesture and react around him. The title is \u003cem\u003ego-chūshin go-chūshin\u003c\/em\u003e — \"Beware! Beware!\" — and the alarm needs no translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe cartouche at the top carries the satirical text by Nishimori Takeki, writing as Koppi Dōjin (\"Master Skin and Bones\") — a column of dense classical Japanese, riddled with wordplay and irony, mocking the Chinese side's military failures in the Yellow Sea. The text references the naval battles of the war: Jiuliancheng, Fengtian, the Yellow Sea fleet. The parodic tone is the point. Where conventional war prints celebrated Japanese heroism, this series chose mockery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeware! Beware!\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to the first part of Kiyochika's landmark series \u003cem\u003eNihon banzai hyakusen hyakushō\u003c\/em\u003e — \u003cem\u003eLong Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs\u003c\/em\u003e — fifty prints published between September 1894 and August 1895 during the Sino-Japanese War. The series title is itself a pun: \u003cem\u003ehyakusen hyakushō\u003c\/em\u003e sounds identical to the military expression \"one hundred battles, one hundred victories.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eKiyochika had studied Western newspaper caricature — particularly the work of British journalist Charles Wirgman — and applied that satirical graphic language directly to the woodblock print format. The result sits at the precise crossroads of two traditions: ukiyo-e technique, Western cartoon sensibility, Meiji-era nationalist fervour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eHe is described as \"the last important ukiyo-e master and the first noteworthy print artist of modern Japan\" — and this series is among the clearest illustrations of why: equal parts visual journalism, political cartoon, and woodblock art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeries:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eNihon banzai hyakusen hyakushō\u003c\/em\u003e (Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs), pl. 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 1894\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Matsuki Heikichi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ōban woodblock print — 27.8 × 39.7 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeld in:\u003c\/strong\u003e British Library (shelfmark 16126.d.2(26)), Japan Center for Asian Historical Records\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eMuseum-quality reproduction printed on thick archival paper. Shipped in a rigid protective tube, ready to frame.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wallango","offers":[{"title":"A3","offer_id":54620397764931,"sku":"P6767S","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2","offer_id":54620397797699,"sku":"P6768S","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1","offer_id":54620397830467,"sku":"P6769S","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20\" x 30\" in","offer_id":54620397863235,"sku":"P6770S","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24\" x 36\" in","offer_id":54620397896003,"sku":"P6771S","price":66.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"27\" x 40\" in","offer_id":54620397928771,"sku":"P6772S","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"30x40 cm","offer_id":54620397961539,"sku":"P6773S","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm","offer_id":54620397994307,"sku":"P6774S","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm","offer_id":54620398027075,"sku":"P6775S","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3810\/2851\/files\/LongLiveJapan_Mockupwallango_posterseul.jpg?v=1783590935","url":"https:\/\/wallango.com\/products\/long-live-japan-one-hundred-victories-one-hundred-laughs-beware-beware-kobayashi-kiyochika-1847-1915-woodblock-print-1894","provider":"Wallango ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}