「日本万歳 百撰百笑」「人間の皮剥 骨皮道人」

From 'Nihon Banzai! Hyakusen Hyakushō,' the subtitle 'Ningen no kawahagi' (人間の皮剥, 'Skinning Humans') employs a sardonic corporeal metaphor. The image likely depicts a Qing soldier stripped of his military identity — uniform, pretensions, or dignity removed to reveal an inadequate figure beneath — using the vocabulary of butchery to turn the enemy combatant into something less than a soldier. Such unmasking compositions were common in Meiji political satire, deploying physical metaphor to argue the Qing military's lack of genuine martial capacity. The print was produced under Kiyochika's pen name Kokkepidōjin (骨皮道人) and belongs to the cluster of broadsheets issued to sustain public enthusiasm for the conflict, combining coarse humor with wartime propaganda in a register accessible to broad urban readerships.