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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.

This oil painting depicts the final banzai charge of Japanese soldiers against American troops during the Battle of Attu island, one of bloodiest battles in the Pacific War. The word "Gyokusai" in the title roughly translates to "smashed jewel", and…

A portrait of Lady Kusunoki, the wife Kusunoki Masashige.

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

A standing self-portrait

Surrealist landscape with an eye

A self-portrait of Aimitsu wearing glasses next to some tree tops

Unlike Fujita's other action-packed war paintings, this one is more tranquil. It shows a Japanese soldier entering the house of a luxurious Dutch-owned house in Indonesia, whose owners have tied up their black servant and abandoned her while they…

Sketches of Australian Prisoners-of-War by Miyamoto Saburo when he visited Singapore during World War 2. Even though Miyamoto is aware that these Westerners are Japan's enemies, he still admired the physical characteristics of these caucasian men. He…

A painting by Miyamoto depicting the Japanese attack on Beijing during World War 2. The pose of the soldier raising his rifle and flag is modeled after Lady Liberty in Eugene Delacroix's 1830 painting "Liberty Leading the People", demonstrating how…