[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]

[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]

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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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Two children wearing sailor outfits are playing with a balloon tethered to

Two children in sailor outfits play with a balloon.

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Date

01/01/1904
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Contributors

Kobayashi, Kiyochika, 1847-1915, artist
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Library of Congress
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