[Two children wearing sailor outfits are playing with a balloon tethered to a Russian battleship, the balloon has burst revealing the head of a Russian admiral or czar and the battleship has been sunk, the Russian child, standing, pointing to the balloon, is crying, the Japanese child, sitting, is joyfully clapping]

Signed on block by artist in lower right, includes chop.

Includes extensive Japanese text.

Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06.

From the series: Nihon banzai hyakusen hyakushō : Long live Japan: one hundred victories, one hundred laughs.

Format: vertical Oban Nishikie.

Gift; Crosby Stuart Noyes; 1906.

Forms part of: Crosby Stuart Noyes collection (Library of Congress).

Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

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01/01/1904

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/item/2009630485/

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