[Humorous picture showing a Japanese soldier blowing away the flimsy structures or fortifications of the Chinese]

A wartime satirical print in which a Japanese soldier blows forcefully to topple Chinese military fortifications, depicted as insubstantial temporary structures that scatter at the slightest breath. Kiyochika deploys the visual logic of the fairy tale — specifically reminiscent of the Three Little Pigs motif — to characterize Chinese defensive works as inadequate and hastily constructed. The soldier's posture is exaggerated for comic effect, cheeks puffed and body angled into the action, while the fortifications collapse in disarray. This print belongs to a series produced in association with the First Sino-Japanese War and was aimed at reinforcing domestic confidence in the Japanese military campaign. The draftsmanship favors clean contour lines and bright flat colors over the atmospheric tonal gradations of Kiyochika's landscape work, calibrated for the mass-reproduction requirements of the illustrated press.