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[Japanese cartoon showing winged insects (Jap.?) threatening a weeping pig with pigtail hair (Chinese?); Sino-Japanese war, 1894-5] – Antique Print

[Japanese cartoon showing winged insects (Jap.?) threatening a weeping pig with pigtail hair (Chinese?); Sino-Japanese war, 1894-5], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print
[Japanese cartoon showing winged insects (Jap.?) threatening a weeping pig with pigtail hair (Chinese?); Sino-Japanese war, 1894-5], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Japanese cartoon showing winged insects (Jap.?) threatening a weeping pig with pigtail hair (Chinese?); Sino-Japanese war, 1894-5]

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A weeping pig with a long queue of hair, menaced by a swarm of winged insects, makes this color woodcut a caricature of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895. Japanese printmakers of that period often portrayed China as a pig and the queue, a hairstyle the Manchu rulers had required of Chinese men, as a sign of backwardness, while Japan appeared as a modern power. The caption card leaves the date unrecorded and marks the identifications of the insects and pig as uncertain, so those readings should be treated as tentative. The print comes from the Noyes Collection and shows how the war was turned into popular satire.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : woodcut, col.
NotesNoyes Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,055 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176926

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