Taiwanese Natives Resist Japanese Troops at Takuhsuan (Taiwan Takukan sôzoku teikô no zu)

This triptych-format war print depicts the armed resistance by indigenous Taiwanese against Japanese military forces during the occupation of Taiwan following the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895, specifically at Takukan (Dakuan) in the central highlands. Kiyochika was among the most prolific producers of Sino-Japanese War imagery, and his coverage extended into the Taiwan campaign that followed. The composition likely contrasts indigenous fighters in the dense mountain terrain against Japanese infantry, with Kiyochika's atmospheric rendering of smoke, fire, and shadow distinguishing his battle prints from the more schematic nishiki-e war imagery of his contemporaries. The full Japanese title specifies indigenous resistance (sōzoku teikō), framing the subject within the expansionist military narrative that dominated popular print culture of the mid-1890s.