Author: Ikeda Terukata (池田輝方).
Subject: Morning sun (asa no hi, 朝の日).
Series: Sunrise island (hi no dejima, 日の出島).
Number: 11.
Genre: kuchi-e (口絵), sensōfūzoku-ga (戦争風俗画)
Publisher: Shunyōdō (春陽堂).
Size : Aiban (合判).
Period: c. 1902.
Trimmed: no
Backed : no
Code: ITK01001
A kuchie from the the Sunrise Island (hi no dejima, 日の出島) series compiled by the novelist Murai Gensai
(村井弦斎).
It has been used as frontispiece for the 11th book (actually including the twelfth and the thirteenth
volume) of the series.
A Japanese soldier from the first Sino-Japanese war in his infantry uniform and holding the sword,
turning his back to a Chinese girl,
who sits on the ground. She may be the enemy, but she is even an innocent victim of the conflict and, as
another soldier's
hat scattered on the ground testify, he stand for her.
Condition: color is good and it has not been backed nor trimmed. There is some visible stain along
the border and a wormhole on top.
As a kuchie it has been probably folded for a long time, so the fold in the middle is prominent.