「日本万歳 百撰百笑」「豚の当惑 骨皮道人」

From the Nippon Banzai Hyakusen Hyakushō (Japan Hurrah: One Hundred Selections, One Hundred Laughs) series, this woodblock print is one of Kiyochika's satirical productions from the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–95). The title "Ton no Tōwaku" (The Pig's Perplexity) uses pig imagery as a derogatory caricature of Chinese forces — a recurring device across the series. Accompanying verses were composed by Kotsuhi Dōjin, the pen name of satirist Inoue Tankei, tying the visual to a tradition of kyōka-style comic poetry. The composition likely shows a Chinese soldier in a state of comic bewilderment, rendered with bold outlines and flat areas of color in the graphic style Kiyochika adopted for this series. Printed in ōban format, these sheets were produced rapidly for mass popular consumption. The series represented a significant departure from Kiyochika's earlier atmospheric kōsen-ga work, channeling his draftsmanship into the emerging vocabulary of illustrated political satire informed by exposure to Western newspaper caricature.