Our Scout Patrol Charges the Enemy

A second variant of Gekko's scout-patrol subject from the Sino-Japanese War (1894–95), this print may represent a different sheet from a triptych, an alternate printing with revised color blocks, or a compositional reworking of the same episode. Variant prints within a single subject were common during the war-print boom of the 1890s, when publishers responded to demand by issuing multiple compositions on popular actions. This version likely shares its basic military setting — soldiers in Meiji-era field uniform charging across contested ground — while differing in vantage point, figure arrangement, or the treatment of background landscape. Diagonal compositional lines and energetic figure postures convey tactical aggression, a recurring visual rhetoric in Gekko's war reportage.