First Lieutenant Mitani is portrayed in this January 1895 nishiki-e among Kiyochika's series of individual military hero portraits from the First Sino-Japanese War. The portrait convention Kiyochika developed for these prints — subject depicted in uniform with appropriate martial accessories against a neutral or atmospheric background — became a template quickly adopted by other publishers issuing war-hero imagery to a public hungry for faces to attach to the names appearing in daily dispatches.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
First Lieutenant Mitani was created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親) in January 1895.
First Lieutenant Mitani depicts figures, warriors, and portraits.
First Lieutenant Mitani measures 35.9 × 25.1 cm (Oban format).
