"Great Victory for the Japanese Army at P'yông Yang (Nichigun Heijô taisho no zu), Meiji period, dated 1894"

A single-sheet war print documenting the Japanese army's defeat of Qing forces at Pyongyang in September 1894, one of several compositions Gekko produced on this subject in direct response to public appetite for battle imagery during the First Sino-Japanese War. Gekko's kisha-e prints of this period balance factual reportage with dramatic visual convention, depicting uniformed soldiers in dynamic poses against backgrounds rendered with atmospheric [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) and dense figure groupings. This sheet likely captures a distinct episode within the broader engagement—perhaps the storming of fortified positions or the pursuit of retreating forces—framed to read as a self-contained scene. The [nishiki-e](/glossary/nishiki-e) polychrome printing technique, with its layered pigments and precise registration, brought the distant theater of war into Meiji-era households with immediacy.