Captain Asakawa Scouts the Battle and Fights Bravely (Sekkô Asakawa Kiheitaii Funsen no zu), Meiji period, dated 1895

This sheet completes the multi-panel composition depicting Captain Asakawa's reconnaissance mission, likely resolving the narrative arc toward either the culmination of the scouting action or the engagement that followed. In triptych format, this rightmost or leftmost panel would carry the compositional weight of resolution — a charge, a return through enemy lines, or the broader battle context that Asakawa's intelligence gathering enabled. Kiyochika's consistent atmospheric rendering across the related sheets creates a unified tonal environment of grey-blue battlefield conditions broken by muzzle flashes or distant fires. The print belongs to the densely competitive market of 1894–95 sensō-ga, in which multiple publishers commissioned Kiyochika and contemporaries to rapidly document — and often embellish — individual acts of valor for a newspaper-reading public hungry for war coverage.