「日本万歳 百撰百笑」「逃げ仕度 骨皮道人」

"Nige Jitaku" (Preparations for Escape) depicts Chinese soldiers or officers making frantic preparations to flee an advancing Japanese force. The theme of Chinese retreat was a recurrent motif across the Nippon Banzai Hyakusen Hyakushō series, reflecting both the actual outcomes of First Sino-Japanese War engagements — Japanese forces repeatedly routed Qing armies in Manchuria and Korea — and the series' propagandistic agenda. Kiyochika likely rendered the scene as comedy: figures bundling belongings or stumbling over each other in panicked disorder. The ōban-format print would have been keyed with three to five woodblocks in flat, saturated colors with limited tonal modulation, prioritizing clarity of caricature over atmospheric nuance. Verses by Kotsuhi Dōjin (Inoue Tankei) translate the visual action into comic-verse form. These sheets functioned as popular media, disseminating a particular narrative of Japanese military superiority to domestic audiences during the summer and autumn of 1894.