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Japanese woodblock
political cartoon
showing Tsar
Nicholas II of Russia
waking from a nightmare of the battered and wounded Russian forces, defeated by Japan in the
Russo-Japanese War
, which concluded with the signing of the
Treaty of Portsmouth
on September 5, 1905. Shown here are a
battleship
,
locomotive
,
cannon
and
telegraph
, who, having been fed up with the number of false reports of Russian victories sent home, have returned to show the Tsar the true damage they have suffered.
Artist:
Kobayashi Kiyochika
; Restoration:
Jake Wartenberg
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