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

One of three individual sheets from Gekko's coverage of the Battle of Pyongyang (September 15, 1894), in which Japanese forces routed Qing troops from the Korean city in a pivotal early engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War. Produced in the same year as the battle, this print reflects the intense commercial demand for war imagery that made Gekko one of the leading kisha-e (war print) artists of the Meiji era. The composition likely isolates a specific phase of the engagement—infantry advance, artillery fire, or hand-to-hand combat—rendered in the crowded, diagonal format typical of Meiji battle prints. Pigment gradations through [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) convey smoke and atmospheric depth, while figures in Westernized military uniforms contrast with the woodblock medium's traditional [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) lineage. Printed on [oban](/glossary/oban)-format [washi](/glossary/washi), the sheet would have been sold individually or assembled alongside its companion sheets.