「日本万歳 百撰百笑」「人間の皮剥 骨皮道人」

A third surviving impression variant of 'Ningen no kawahagi' (人間の皮剥, 'Skinning Humans') from 'Nihon Banzai! Hyakusen Hyakushō.' The repeated printing of this composition attests to its popularity within a series that was itself one of the most commercially successful satirical print sequences of the Sino-Japanese War period. Minor variations from sibling impressions — in baren-applied tonal gradation, block registration, or pigment choices — characterize the nishiki-e production process under conditions of rapid, volume-driven republication. The Kokkepidōjin pen name (骨皮道人) maintained a degree of separation between Kiyochika's reputation as a serious atmospheric landscape artist and his role as a creator of wartime propagandistic satire, allowing him to occupy both registers of the Meiji print market simultaneously.