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This painting was completed one year after Japan has started its full-scale invasion against China. Despite the innocuous looking image of a girl with a camera, the painting has subtle nationalistic messages. The camera conveys a message about…

A painting that was displayed along with "Good Day" at the Futen exhibitions. Just like Good Day, it features Lin's wife and child, and promotes nationalistic ideal of womanhood.

A painting of the famous Forbidden City in Beijing, China. Umehara Ryuzaburō is intrigued by Chinese culture and history during his time living in Beijing. He even rented an apartment right next to the Forbidden City so he can get a good view.

A landscape of Mt. Fuji rising from the mist alongside a crimson red sun in the sky. This painting is filled with nationalistic sentiment

A bright red sun rising next to Mt. Fuji across an extravagant gold background. This painting by Yokoyama Taikan is a nationalistic painting that celebrates Japan's imperial glory. It is part of the series "Ten Mountain
Views and Ten Ocean Views",…

A surrealist painting that depicts the artist's sentiment towards the defeat of Japan following the second world war. In the foreground, we see a heap of human bodies stacked up in a rough pyramid shape in front of a barren desolate landscape.…

This work is supposedly inspired by Fukuzawa's trip to China in 1939, where he sighted a poor man living among the deserts Loess Plateau. The figure also reflects Fukuzawa's spiritual condition and a representation of the tragedy suffered by Chinese…