Miss Jiuliancheng and the Russian Soldier (Kyûrenjô no heiki), from the series Hurrah for Japan! One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs (Nihon banzai hyakusen hyashushô)

This print belongs to Nihon banzai hyakusen hyakushō (Hurrah for Japan! One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs), a series of satirical prints Kiyochika produced during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05). Jiuliancheng was the site of an early engagement on the Yalu River. In contrast to his early atmospheric landscapes, these wartime prints deploy caricature and broad humor to mock Russian military failures and celebrate Japanese advances—a popular genre that drew on the tradition of political cartoon illustration Kiyochika had developed through magazine work. The series uses exaggerated physiognomy and comic staging rather than documentary realism. The title's reference to a 'Miss Jiuliancheng' likely employs the place name as a personified figure in a humorous vignette dramatizing Russian defeat at that location.