“Noble Conquerors” and “Foolish Children”. Colonial Propaganda in Japanese Xylography at the end of 19 th  century

Olga Lebedeva

doi:10.28995/2686-7249-2017-10-1-102-108

“Noble Conquerors” and “Foolish Children”. Colonial Propaganda in Japanese Xylography at the end of 19^th century

Olga Lebedeva

https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2017-10-1-102-108

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Abstract

The article is devoted to the formation of visual standards of Japanese propaganda images in 1870s - 1890s. As it was in the other totalitarian states of the first half of 20^th century, Japanese painters produced a large amount of visual propaganda with the style and selected subjects similar to the European ones. In the early period of making Japanese colonial Empire newspapers started to publish subjects generating typical colonial discourse based on the indigenous Far-eastern material. One of the most popular themes was the rescue of a barbaric child by a civilized Japanese male of mature years. The article considers the case by example of the following xylographs: “Botan girl” (Hyakkuri Sanjin,1874) and “Captain Higuchi” (Mizuno Toshikata, 1895).

Keywords

Япония, эпоха Мэйдзи, пропаганда, ксилография, колониальность, Japan, Meiji epoch, propaganda, xylograph, coloniality,

About the Author

Olga Lebedeva

Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Russian Federation

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For citation: Lebedeva O. “Noble Conquerors” and “Foolish Children”. Colonial Propaganda in Japanese Xylography at the end of 19^th century. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2017;(10-1):102-108. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2017-10-1-102-108

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