小林清親 • 甲午战争讽刺系列 • 日本木刻版画 - 日本 - Meiji period (1868-1912)





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日本明治时期的小林清亲木版画,1895 年,Ōban 立版尺寸约36 × 24 cm,来自《百撰百笑》讽刺系列,描绘刘永福,状况尚可。
卖家的描述
Artist: Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親, 1847–1915)
Title: Ryū Eifuku no Hitoshinan (劉永福の一死難) — "Liu Yongfu Deep in Thought"
Series: Shakai Gentō — Hyakusen Hyakushō (社會幻燈 百撰百笑) — "Society Magic Lantern: One Hundred Selections, One Hundred Laughs," Kiyochika's First Sino-Japanese War satire series
Technique: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); satirical caricature (風刺画 / ギガ) with comic text
Date: Meiji 28 (1895)
Publisher: Matsuki Heikichi (松木平吉)
Format: Ōban tate-e, approx. 36 × 24 cm
Condition: A clean, well-registered impression with colours fairly preserved — Some overall toning consistent with age.
About the print
At the centre sits Liu Yongfu (劉永福) — the celebrated commander of the Chinese Black Flag Army — sunk in brooding contemplation, brow knotted and hand drawn up to his beard, swamped in a heavy red robe over a gold-figured underdress. Kiyochika rings him with a chaos of subordinates pitched into every register of panic: a grinning officer leaning in from the left, a blue-robed aide at the right frozen open-mouthed with both hands flung up, and two more kneeling and prostrate in the foreground, their dark caps tipped forward as they grovel and shout. Furled banners and a spear-shaft cut across the upper field, the Black Flag standard reduced to so much clutter.
The joke is in the contrast. The once-feared general — who held out in Taiwan against the Japanese takeover in 1895 before slipping across the strait to the mainland — is shown not in command but cornered, turning over a hopeless situation while his staff dissolves into a squabbling, frightened scrum. The colouring is deliberately garish and the draughtsmanship caricatural, the line pushed toward the grotesque in a manner Kiyochika absorbed from Western newspaper satire. Like the rest of the series it is unapologetically propagandistic: the Chinese enemy is drawn as cowardly, undignified and absurd. That partisanship is exactly why these sheets are now prized as documents of Meiji war satire and of how a modernising Japan pictured its adversary.
About the Series
Hyakusen Hyakushō ("One Hundred Selections, One Hundred Laughs") is Kiyochika's celebrated series of single-sheet comic prints lampooning the Qing enemy during the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–95), with biting captions by Koppi Dōjin and publication by Matsuki Heikichi. The title is a pun: 百撰百笑 echoes 百戦百勝, "a hundred battles, a hundred victories." The prints appeared under two related banners — the well-known Nihon Banzai ("Long Live Japan") and, as here, Shakai Gentō ("Society Magic Lantern") — the latter used for the later sheets on the 1895 Taiwan campaign. Together they are among the most sought-after examples of Meiji satirical printmaking.
卖家故事
Artist: Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親, 1847–1915)
Title: Ryū Eifuku no Hitoshinan (劉永福の一死難) — "Liu Yongfu Deep in Thought"
Series: Shakai Gentō — Hyakusen Hyakushō (社會幻燈 百撰百笑) — "Society Magic Lantern: One Hundred Selections, One Hundred Laughs," Kiyochika's First Sino-Japanese War satire series
Technique: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); satirical caricature (風刺画 / ギガ) with comic text
Date: Meiji 28 (1895)
Publisher: Matsuki Heikichi (松木平吉)
Format: Ōban tate-e, approx. 36 × 24 cm
Condition: A clean, well-registered impression with colours fairly preserved — Some overall toning consistent with age.
About the print
At the centre sits Liu Yongfu (劉永福) — the celebrated commander of the Chinese Black Flag Army — sunk in brooding contemplation, brow knotted and hand drawn up to his beard, swamped in a heavy red robe over a gold-figured underdress. Kiyochika rings him with a chaos of subordinates pitched into every register of panic: a grinning officer leaning in from the left, a blue-robed aide at the right frozen open-mouthed with both hands flung up, and two more kneeling and prostrate in the foreground, their dark caps tipped forward as they grovel and shout. Furled banners and a spear-shaft cut across the upper field, the Black Flag standard reduced to so much clutter.
The joke is in the contrast. The once-feared general — who held out in Taiwan against the Japanese takeover in 1895 before slipping across the strait to the mainland — is shown not in command but cornered, turning over a hopeless situation while his staff dissolves into a squabbling, frightened scrum. The colouring is deliberately garish and the draughtsmanship caricatural, the line pushed toward the grotesque in a manner Kiyochika absorbed from Western newspaper satire. Like the rest of the series it is unapologetically propagandistic: the Chinese enemy is drawn as cowardly, undignified and absurd. That partisanship is exactly why these sheets are now prized as documents of Meiji war satire and of how a modernising Japan pictured its adversary.
About the Series
Hyakusen Hyakushō ("One Hundred Selections, One Hundred Laughs") is Kiyochika's celebrated series of single-sheet comic prints lampooning the Qing enemy during the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–95), with biting captions by Koppi Dōjin and publication by Matsuki Heikichi. The title is a pun: 百撰百笑 echoes 百戦百勝, "a hundred battles, a hundred victories." The prints appeared under two related banners — the well-known Nihon Banzai ("Long Live Japan") and, as here, Shakai Gentō ("Society Magic Lantern") — the latter used for the later sheets on the 1895 Taiwan campaign. Together they are among the most sought-after examples of Meiji satirical printmaking.

