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By contrasting images of Japanese mothers and Korean comfort women, Shimada visualizes the imperialist hierarchy.

The image consists of photos of a military brothel, prostitutes, and a person in underwear tinted with red. The artist raises the awareness to the tabooed issue of Japanese history to question the system of exploitation.

The picture is from Kawada's book The Map (地図).

A standing self-portrait

Portrait of an artist, presumably Matsumoto himself, with his family.

An urban landscape of the Diet Building's surrounding area

A temporary medical treatment station was set up and insured people were waiting for treatment.

The artist painted his own wife and daughter in this painting. It conveys the ideological theme of "good wife, wise mother (良妻賢母, Ryōsai Kenbo), which was propagated across Japan and its colonies from the 19th to 20th century.

A depiction of Lin's future wife in a Kimono next to two goats, in front of a wall of morning glories. This work was accepted by the Shin Bunten exhibition.