「日本万歳 百撰百笑」「北京嬢の落涙 骨皮道人」

From the satirical series Nippon Banzai: Hyakusen Hyakushō (Long Live Japan: One Hundred Selections, One Hundred Laughs), this print carries the caption 'Tears of a Beijing Lady' and was published under Kiyochika's caricature pen name Honekawa Dōjin during the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–95). The image likely depicts a Chinese woman in Beijing weeping, rendered in an exaggerated caricature style that departs sharply from Kiyochika's celebrated atmospheric landscapes. The series employed bold ink outlines, flat areas of color, and grotesque distortion of facial features to satirize Chinese military and civilian figures following successive Japanese victories. Print designs in this series were printed on ōban sheets and circulated rapidly as topical commentary. The work reflects the wartime function of woodblock printing as popular media, using humor to reinforce nationalist sentiment among Japanese domestic audiences. This caption plays on the theme of Chinese humiliation and loss, rendered with the visual shorthand of giga caricature traditions adapted to modern propaganda.