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Picture of Engineer Private First Class Onoguchi Tokuji Risking Certain Death Placing Explosives at the Fortress Gates to Destroy Them during the Second Army’s Attack of Jinzhou Fortress by Ogata Gekko — Japanese Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper, February 1895?

Picture of Engineer Private First Class Onoguchi Tokuji Risking Certain Death Placing Explosives at the Fortress Gates to Destroy Them during the Second Army’s Attack of Jinzhou Fortress

by Ogata Gekko

Meiji/Taishō Prints
Castles
Date:
February 1895?
Medium:
Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
Format:
Oban
Dimensions:
36.5 × 70.2 cm

Description

The 1895 print of Engineer Onoguchi Tokuji risking certain death with explosives at the fortress gates—a companion or variant to the earlier Jinzhou prints—extends the documentation of this specific episode from multiple angles or in different artistic treatments. The technical precision of an explosives placement mission combined with its extreme personal danger made it ideal material for war print heroism: a modern technical act elevated to ancient martial glory through sheer physical courage.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Picture of Engineer Private First Class Onoguchi Tokuji Risking Certain Death Placing Explosives at the Fortress Gates to Destroy Them during the Second Army’s Attack of Jinzhou Fortress was created by Ogata Gekko (尾形月耕) in February 1895?.

Picture of Engineer Private First Class Onoguchi Tokuji Risking Certain Death Placing Explosives at the Fortress Gates to Destroy Them during the Second Army’s Attack of Jinzhou Fortress depicts castles.

Picture of Engineer Private First Class Onoguchi Tokuji Risking Certain Death Placing Explosives at the Fortress Gates to Destroy Them during the Second Army’s Attack of Jinzhou Fortress measures 36.5 × 70.2 cm (Oban format).