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明治16年 ; 東京 ; 請求記号:チ5 4174 ; 1枚 ; 38×27cm ; 自由民権運動に退潮の影がさし始めた頃、自由党と改進党は鋭く対立するに至った。この図は、栃木県下の自由党壮士数名が、改進党総理大隈重信と三菱の岩崎弥太郎を糾弾し、両者を“大熊”と“海坊主”に見立てて血祭りに上げているところ。 ; 1883 ; Tokyo ; 1 sheet ; In the 1880s, when the Freedom and People's Rights Movement was in eclipse, the Liberal Party and the Constitutional Reform Party became bitter rivals. The picture shows LP members in Tochigi prefecture impeaching CRP president Okuma Shigenobu and Iwasaki Yataro, founder of the Mitsubishi industrial and financial combine, making a scapegoat of the two, the former likened to a big bear (okuma, the same pronunciation as the family name Okuma) and the latter to a sea monster (because Iwasaki was owner of most of Japan’s ships).
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