13.5.19

Egg for Japan Warrior

- A new Chicken hatched -
Joseph Keppler, 1895
Color lithograph, from Puck

A group of "fighting roosters" labeled "Russia, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, [and] England" stand around a chick labeled "Japan" from a newly hatched egg labeled "Chinese Japanese War." The chick is crowing and standing on the Chinese flag.
Caption: Chorus of Fighting Roosters - Well! Well! - who'd have thought it?

More about the first Sino-Japanese War (1894-1995), the Treaty of Shimonoseki and the Triple Intervention about European ambitions.


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