General Ôdera Attacking the Hundred Foot Cliff with All His Might (Ôdera shôgun zenryoku o furuite Hyakusekigai o shûgeki suru no zu)

One of two known versions of this subject, this print records General Ōdera's assault on the Hyakusekigai — literally the Hundred-Foot Cliff — a toponym from engagements during the First Sino-Japanese War. Sensō-e (war prints) like this one were produced by major Meiji publishers at pace with battlefield news, and Gekko was among the genre's most prolific contributors. The composition likely places Ōdera in a heroic foreground position, sword or baton raised, with troops ascending the steep cliff face behind him. Dramatic diagonal compositions emphasizing height and physical effort were conventional for cliff-assault imagery. Printed in multiple sheets and using vivid nishiki-e pigments, these works served a documentary and propagandistic function, presenting military action as heroic individual performance set against grand terrain.