"Hurrah for Japan: One Hundred
Selections—One Hundred Laughs"


"The Sino-Japanese War: Public Display
of Laughs and Amusement"


By Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1894–95


Kiyochika’s manga amounted to satirical political cartooning, and introduced a new level of ridicule and mockery to depictions of the Chinese foe.

Such depictions were comparable, in sometimes ironic ways, to the “anti-Oriental” cartoons produced by the English, Americans, and Europeans at this same time. (See “Orientalism—the War in English Eyes.”)