About The Series "One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs"

Title [war depicted]	Number  of Prints	Date Range
Part 1 Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs  日本万歳 百撰百笑 Nihon banzai: Hyakusen hyakushō [Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895]	50 plus 1 table of contents	September 1894 -   August 1895
Part 2  Magic Lantern Society: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs  社会幻燈 百撰百笑 Shakai gentō: Hyakusen hyakushō [Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895]	12	November 1895 -  December 1896
Part 3  Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs  日本万歳 百撰百笑 Nihon banzai: Hyakusen hyakushō [Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905]	86	April 1904 -  April 1905

Political Cartoons

While all three parts of the series "amounted to satirical political cartooning" the first two parts "introduced a new level of ridicule and mockery to depictions of theChinese foe. Such depictions were comparable, in sometimes ironic ways, to the 'anti-Oriental' cartoons produced by the English, Americans, andEuropeans at this same time."³

In a 2011 exhibition titled "Pictures of Power, Japanese Woodcuts as Propaganda," the Östasiatiska museum commented "Kobayashi Kiyochika's series of woodcuts, 'Long live Japan; one hundred victories, one hundred laughs' from the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) raises many questions about how images affect us, how they are able to mobilize violence and prevent us from feeling empathy for the designated enemy."⁴

¹ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston website http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=155588&coll_keywords=meiji&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=Prints&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=2&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=11

² Nishimori Takeki 西森武城 (1861-1913), was one of the chief comic writers for the newspaper Marumaru chinbun and often collaborated with Kiyochika, who was thirteen years his senior.
³ MIT Visualizing Cultures website "Throwing Off Asia," by John W. Dower http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/kiyochika_manga_b.html

⁴ website of Östasiatiska museet (The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden) http://www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/en/ostasiatiskamuseet/exhibitions/previous-exhibitions/pictures-of-power-japanese-woodcuts-as-propaganda-/

List of the 50 Prints from "Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs" (First Part: Sino-Japanese War Series)

The Table of Contents for the First Fifty Prints

	Title (English)	Title (Japanese)	Date of Publication
	Table of contents	Mokuroku	Meiji 28
1	A shock for the Chinese guy	Chanchan no kimotsubushi	Meiji 27/9
2	General Li´s splitting headache  (A Big Headache for Li Hongzhang)	Rikōshō no ō-zutsū	Meiji 28
3	Chinese / strange soldiers	Okashina heish	Meiji 27/9
4	The Pestle-Song	Fumitsubushi no uta	Meiji 27/9
5	Skinning people	Ningen no kawahagi	Meiji 27
6	Total exhaustion / A big failure	(Ō-heikō) On-haishō	Meiji 27/11
7	Hubbub in the dragon kings palace (Turmoil in Dragon’s Palace)	Ryūgū no sawagi	Meiji 27/11
8	Newsflash! Newsflash!	Go-chūshin go-chūshin	Meiji 27/11
9	Boom in the underworld  (Hell is booming)	Jigoku no ō-hanjō	Meiji 27/11
10	The incommodious Manchuria	Hōtenfu no ni-yakkai	Meiji 27/11
11	A big aim for the Japanese army	Nippei no ichinen	Meiji 27/12
12	Tearful goodbye of the beaten commander	Taishō no nakiwakare	Meiji 27
13	The end of the Qing Dynasty / the succession	Shindai kagiri	Meiji 27/12
14	Preparations for the flight	Nige-shitaku	Meiji 27/12
15	The blockhead / Defense of the straw man	Dekunobō 木偶の坊	Meiji 27/12
16	Meandering pigs	Buta no tōwaku
17	The snatching	Bundori
18	Pulling the necks	Kubippiki	Meiji 27/11
19	A thick-skinned face	Atsui tsura no kawa	Meiji 28/2
20	An object lesson for the Chinese military (Making Chinese Soldiers Shiver)	Shinpei no hiyakasare	Meiji 28/2
21	Quantum jump / A walk with long legs	Chōsoku no shinpo	Meiji 28
22	An old Empire is flying away / is swept away	Tonda Rōdaigoku	Meiji 28/2
23	Mademoiselle Chinas lament	Pekinjō no rakurui	Meiji 28
24	Fun with modern toys	Tōsei omocha asobi	Meiji 28/2
25	Thought luck!	Jigōjitoku	Meiji 28/3
26	A moaning monologue in the Chinese kyogen	Shinkyōgen no kōjō	Meiji 28
27	No enemy far and wide	Mukau tokoro ni teki nashi	Meiji 28
28	Big fishing at Weihaiwei	Ikaiei no tairyō	Meiji 28/4
29	A move of regret	Yukai na undō	Meiji 28
30	Mice in the sack (Rats in a bag)	Fukuro no nezumi	Meiji 28/4
31	The beaten commander	Ō-heikō	Meiji 28
32	China dolls	Shinaningyō	Meiji 28/3
33	Suicide of the Chinese soldier	Kanpei no seppuku	Meiji 28/3
34	A vivid child´s play (Brave children playing)	Isamashii kodomo asobi	Meiji 28
35	A clever protection against thievery	Tonchi tōnan-yoke	Meiji 28
36	A new machine made in China	Shin-hatsumei no kikai	Meiji 28/4
37	Tearing weeds out at Peking (Japanese soldier gathering young herbs in Peking)	Pekin no tsumikusa	Meiji 28
38	Turmoil at river Sanzu (Rush at the River Styx)	Sanzu-gawa no ō-konzatsu	Meiji 28/5
39	Chinese souvenirs	Shina miyage	Meiji 28
40	Trouble and strife	Kan’u to Shūshō	Meiji 28
41	The fearful goddess	Okubyōgami	Meiji 28
42	These are the Pescadores (Penghu)!	Kore wa Hōkotō	Meiji 28/1
43	Pulling out a big tooth	Daiba o nuku	Meiji 28
44	The shivering commander	Buruburu taishō	Meiji 28
45	Horrifying the straw man	Kakashi ni odoroku	Meiji 28
46	The Chinese sorrow-army	Shinkoku konkuminhei	Meiji 28/8
47	The juggler of the Chinese ball	Shinadamatsukai	Meiji 28/6
48	Only abandoned houses on island Gyoōtō	Gyoōtō no akiie	Meiji 28
49	Reclaiming land in New-Japan	Shin-Nippon no kaitaku	Meiji 28
50	Arrival of the two brides/200 million [Tael] war reparation	Nioku no tōrai	Meiji 28

Note: Meiji 27 corresponds to 1894 and Meiji 28 to 1895.

For images of the above 50 prints go to the website of the Waseda University Library http://archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/bunko10/bunko10_05481/bunko10_05481.html

The 12 Prints from "Magic Lantern Society: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs" (Second Part: Sino-Japanese War Series)

兵士の帰村  Heishi no kison Soldier returning to his village November 3, 1895

細君の歓迎 Saikun no kangei The wife's welcome November 1895

開化振 Kaikaburi The gesture of social manners January 3, 1895

解隊後の豚兵 Kaitai go no Tonpei

帰化の仕度 Kika no shitaku April 27, 1896

人夫募集所 Ninpu boshūsho January 15, 1896

老耄の航海 Oibore no kōkai  January 23, 1896

劉永福の一死案 Ryū Eifuku no hitoshian Ryeifuku being lost in deep thought December 30, 1895

手柄ばなし Tegara-banashi December 30, 1895

大勝な勢ひ  Taishō na ikioi (Taishō na zeihi)

虎の旗の藪入 Tora no hata no yabuiri November 1895

山師の笑談 Yamashi no shōdan January 23, 1896

List of the 86 Prints from "Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs" (Third Part: Russo-Japanese War Series)

 

	Title or Description (English)	Title (Japanese)	Date of Publication
1		強兵の戦任力
2		海陸戦争勝技
3		仁川艦鯛の一網
4		泣き労れ
5		章魚の足らひ
6		埋へ工夫
7		迂露隊砲台
8		玉乗の死苦尻
9		影弁慶
10		飛だ人玉
11		苦露熊退治
12		逃露々々
13		掃ハ内埃ハ外
14		手強い兵士
15		敵兵の無守備
16		両国の大相撲
17		新釣狐
18		露都の縮表
19		遼東御勘弁
20		諸城を踏潰す
21		飛だ迷案
22		手酷い潰し形
23		上等の死露物
24		得利寺の打毀れ
25		危妙な旗ら気
26		露国の号外売
27		露将か降将か
28		三国拳
29		奉天のチヨコ見勢
30		迂露々々艦
31		暴露製の安軍艦
32		割の宜い勝法
33		屠露気武者
34		医者にも困つた
35		水雷艇の大当
36		小癪ツ危兵
37		露艦の閉口
38		敗艦の死末
39		露兵の弱無士
40		危険綱渡り
41		愚迂の音も電報
42		溺合の馳走
43		浦汐の大困雑
44		難でも兵器
45		一本足の負物
46		ちやんと落嬢
47		摩天嶺の弱襲
48		露将の震軍
49		大和玉の御馳走
50		戦捷翫弄物
51		吐胆の苦し身
52		ヅドン勝
53		命の白い物
54		日露の太刀合
55		大兵降の自劣込み
56		九連嬢の兵気
57		露西亜一流転手固舞
58		ヨワールとアワテル
59		大負に大薪
60		露兵の同死打
61		危夫人の大病
62		露将の首途
63		面白い苦夫
64		敵艦の大笑事
65		取られ砲台
66		日本兵の雷名
67		大歯の死術
68		三死の面怪
69		おか支那逃振
70		危隊な大法螺
71		海賊船の破滅
72		降らぬ騒ぎ
73		露兵の倒変木
74		苦しい網頼み
75		胴背焼潰し
76		敗北の御注進
77		旅順の玉なし
78		露国の戦時観音
79		苦しい時の蟹頼み
80		達磨大悲
81		大男の兵突張
82		大痴穢の鬼
83		滅茶負の亡霊
84		露艦の角兵衛

Prints from the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War Series
(note: the following prints are not part of the Collection)

The Crying Sounds of a Telegram	The army of the north melts away before the Rising Sun	Czar Nicholas II tightrope walking
The Ruthless Crusher Japanese Army Grabs Port Arthur	The Japanese Octopus off Port Arthur	Dreams of a Russian General