$500–$8,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Gekko's prolific output makes most of his work affordable. Quality varies significantly.
The Picture of the Surrender of Port Arthur—a companion or alternative version of the earlier Ryojunko kanraku print—depicts the formal ceremony of capitulation in which Russian commanders surrendered the fortress to Japanese forces in January 1905. The moment of formal surrender, with its carefully staged theater of defeat and victory, gave Gekko a compositional subject of human drama more contained than battlefield action, two groups of officers facing each other across the charged space of military protocol.
1940
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Boshu Taikai
1925
Color woodblock print; oban
September 1931
Color woodblock print; oban
Picture of the Surrender of Port Arthur (Ryojunkô kanraku no zu) was created by Ogata Gekko (尾形月耕).
Picture of the Surrender of Port Arthur (Ryojunkô kanraku no zu) depicts seascapes.
