Our Troops Landing on Taiwan (Wagagun Taiwan-tô jôriku)

A companion composition to related prints depicting the Japanese military occupation of Taiwan in 1895, this triptych documents the amphibious landings that followed the cession of the island under the Treaty of Shimonoseki. Where the nocturnal version emphasizes atmosphere, this print likely depicts a daytime landing, allowing Kiyochika to show the full scale of the operation: transport vessels in the background, landing boats in the middle distance, and infantry assembling on the beach in the foreground. The Taiwanese coastline—unfamiliar to the domestic woodblock tradition—is rendered with attention to topographic specificity, drawing on the same drive toward documentary realism that characterized Kiyochika's Meiji Tokyo imagery. Flags and military banners provide compositional verticals against a coastal horizon.