Braving the Bitter Cold, Our Troops Set Up Camp at Yingkou (Eikô no genkan o okashite wagagun roei haru no zu), Meiji period, dated 1895

A third state or impression of the Yingkou encampment composition, this print may show variation in coloring, block wear, or publisher's alterations from the other recorded versions. The subject — Japanese troops enduring the Manchurian winter during the Yingkou operation of February 1895 — remained consistent across printings. Comparison of multiple impressions reveals the degree to which Meiji-era woodblock print production involved variation across editions: bokashi gradations in sky and ground shift in intensity, flesh tones in figure groups may differ, and some detail blocks occasionally show signs of re-cutting. Kiyochika's war prints circulated through commercial print shops serving an urban public following the war's progress through newspaper dispatches; woodblock prints offered a visual supplement to textual reportage, with color and compositional drama exceeding what photographic reproduction in newsprint could then achieve.