The Entire Pescadores Island Chain Occupied by the Japanese Forces — 澎湖列島之全占領図

This nishiki-e triptych or single-sheet print (澎湖列島之全占領図) documents the Japanese military occupation of the Penghu (Pescadores) Islands during the First Sino-Japanese War in March–April 1895. The archipelago, strategically positioned between Taiwan and mainland China, was seized by Japanese naval and land forces as part of the broader campaign that concluded with the Treaty of Shimonoseki. Kiyochika was among the most prolific producers of Sino-Japanese War prints, supplying large-format battle compositions to a domestic audience hungry for visual news of Japanese victories. The composition likely shows the island chain from a panoramic or aerial-adjacent viewpoint with Japanese flags planted at key positions, naval vessels in the surrounding sea, and possibly scenes of troop landing. The print participates in the triumphalist visual rhetoric that characterized Japanese war print production of 1894–95.