「威海衛進軍配置之図」

This print depicts the military deployment and advance on Weihaiwei (威海衛) during the First Sino-Japanese War, presented as a strategic overview or troop disposition scene rather than a moment of direct combat. Kiyochika's war print series, produced largely for the newspaper and commercial print market during 1894–95, combined topographic specificity with heroic figure composition. A deployment or formation print would typically show Japanese forces arranged in orderly advance, with commanding officers visible and the landscape rendered schematically to convey strategic context. The composition may use an elevated vantage point to show the relationship between land forces and the coastal fortifications of Weihaiwei, drawing on both Western military illustration conventions and the established Japanese tradition of battle prints (kassen-e). This print and kobayashi-kiyochika--241 together document Kiyochika's sustained engagement with the Weihaiwei campaign as a subject of public commemoration.