Adachi Ginko, "Kabayama at Seikyomaru, Sino-Japanese War"

The Naval Commander Kabayama leads his troops while attacking troops aboard his ship, the Seikyomaru during the Sino-Japanese War (1904-1905). Adachi Ginko (active 1870-1908) situates the viewer right in the battle as ships are set afire and sunk in the distance. 

Date: 1894
Size: Oban Triptych
Publisher: Fukuda Kumajiro
Condition: Excellent color and condition
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Japan's ascendance into a colonial power in the late 19th century was the subject of many Meiji-period woodblock print makers. These senso-e (war pictures) depicting battles and heroes of the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars were romanticized snapshots of valiant victories in combat, but were also celebrations of real military achievements that laid the foundations of Japan's imperial rise in the 20th century.