Chinese / Strange Soldiers (Okashina heishi おか支那兵士), from the series “Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs” (Nihon banzai: Hyakusen hyakushō 日本万歳 百撰百笑)
Chinese / Strange Soldiers (Okashina heishi おか支那兵士), from the series “Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs” (Nihon banzai: Hyakusen hyakushō 日本万歳 百撰百笑)

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Chinese / Strange Soldiers (Okashina heishi おか支那兵士), from the series “Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs” (Nihon banzai: Hyakusen hyakushō 日本万歳 百撰百笑),

1894 [Meiji 27], September

Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親, 1847–1915
Published and printed by Matsuki Heikichi 松木平吉
Japanese
Meiji era, 1868–1912
2008-102.26

Information

Title
Chinese / Strange Soldiers (Okashina heishi おか支那兵士), from the series “Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs” (Nihon banzai: Hyakusen hyakushō 日本万歳 百撰百笑)
Dates

1894 [Meiji 27], September

Maker
Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親
Published and printed by Matsuki Heikichi 松木平吉
Medium
Woodblock print (ōban tate-e triptych); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
34.9 x 23.5 cm. (13 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Japanese Print Collection
Object Number
2008-102.26
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Signatures
Signed: Kiyochika 清親
Marks/Labels/Seals
Sealed: Kiyo and Chika and variously
Culture
Japanese
Period
Meiji
Type
japanese printmaking styles, woodblock prints, oban, prints
Materials
oban, color, ink, paper
Techniques
woodcut (process)
Subject
men, woks, tents, figures (representations)

–2008 Collection of Ruth Leserman (Los Angeles, CA) and Allen R. Adler (New York, NY), co-ownership. 2008 Allen R. Adler (New York, NY), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2008.

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