What's the background behind this very NSFW propaganda print from around the time Japan won the Russo-Japanese War? Who would have produced it or consumed it? I take it falls under the category of "Shunga". Was it "mainstream" or "pornographic" or both/neither?

by screwyoushadowban

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Russo-Japanese_War_Shunga.jpg

I don't read Japanese but apparently the text is supposed to be somewhat humorous? What were Japanese attitudes toward the apparent rape of an enemy soldier in wartime?

ParkSungJun

Thank you for this imagery, I have something new to haunt my dreams.

The message in the picture is a pretty poor joke, the sort of thing one might find in the British contemporary Punch. Going from right to left:

The right message is the Russian soldier (designated as "rosuke" or "russki") saying that "Ugh, this is like dying/I want to die..." presumably due to the shame. The middle message is from the Japanese soldier's comrades, who are remarking that the soldier performed a skillful sashite This is incorrect, please refer to ParallelPain's corrections below. The left message is the Russian(s?) saying "hurry up and escape!"