Negotiations after the Sino-Japanese War

Fuenken Tsuneshige Japanese

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This propaganda triptych illustrates negotiations held in Tokyo in early 1895 between delegations representing the Chinese and Japanese. At right are Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi and the diplomat Mutsu Munemitsu, in Western military dress uniforms. Li Hongzhang and Wu Tingfang, representatives of the Qing court, and their interpreter bow to their Japanese counterparts, while two Chinese clerks look on with disdain

Negotiations after the Sino-Japanese War, Fuenken Tsuneshige (Japanese, active 1894–1904), Triptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, Japan

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