Flying Lost Plan

"Flying Lost Plan" is an April 1904 satirical print from Kiyochika's Russo-Japanese War satire series, the title referring — with comic ambiguity — to either a Russian military plan that has gone astray or the general state of Russian strategic confusion at the war's outset. Japan's rapid seizure of the initiative at Port Arthur and on the Korean peninsula had indeed left Russian commanders scrambling for a coherent response, and Kiyochika's Nippon Banzai! tradition encouraged precisely this kind of topical, punning commentary.