Lang leve Japan! Overwinningslied bij Pyongyang, Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1894

Title(s)

Lang leve Japan! Overwinningslied bij Pyongyang
Nippon banzai, Heijô no gaika (title on object)

Object type

• print
• triptych

Object number

RP-P-2010-310-31

Inscriptions / marks

• label

Description

Japanse soldaten zegevieren hun overwinning in Pyongyang, staand op de lijken van Koreaanse soldaten. Op 16 september 1894 gaf de stad zich over aan het Japanse leger, dit gebeurde tijdens de Eerste Chinees-Japanse Oorlog (1894-1895).

Artist

• print maker: Kobayashi Kiyochika (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Matsuki Heikichi (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

1894

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut / polish

Measurements

height 365 mm × width 726 mm

What

• victory ~ armed conflict
• military celebrations

Where

• Pyongyang

Acquisition

transferred 13-Oct-2009

Copyright

Public domain

• Japan at the dawn of the modern age : woodblock prints from the Meiji era, 1868-1912 : selections from the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Donald Keene, Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. Sharf, Anne Nishimura Morse, Frederic A. Sharf, Louise E. Virgin, p. 75, cat.nr. 29