征清百首歌加留多

Incomplete set (198 of 200) of Uta-garuta 歌ガルタ “Poetry playing cards” related to the Sino-Japanese war. The title is 征清百首歌加留多 "Uta-garuta with 100 poems for the campaign against the Qing Dynasty". The songs/poems on the cards are composed in support of the Japanese war against the Qing empire of 1894-95 CE. The authors seem to be a mix of poets and politicians. Many of them can be matched by author and content to the publication Seishin Kashu 征清歌集 “Collected Songs for the Campaign Against the Qing”, published in Tokyo, Meiji 27 [1894], by Sasaki Nobutsuna 佐佐木信綱 (1872-1963 CE). There are two sets of cards in the pack the yomifuda "reading cards" with a blue border and the torifuda "grabbing cards" with a brown border. The images behind the text are drawn from battles and historic moments during the war. One example depicts a victory arch constructed by General Oshima Yoshimasa after the battle of Seonghwan in Korea.