Sino-Japanese War: Picture of the Great Victory at Jiuliancheng (Nisshin-sensô Kyûrenjô daishô no zu)

The third of Gekko's prints on the Battle of Jiuliancheng reflects the commercial logic of Meiji war-print publishing: major victories generated sustained consumer demand, and publishers extracted maximum value by releasing multiple compositions on the same engagement. This sheet's variant title spelling—Kyûrenjō rather than Kyûrenjô—suggests it may have been issued by a different publisher or in a distinct print run from its companion versions. The image likely depicts a phase of the battle not covered by the other sheets, possibly the aftermath of the assault: Japanese troops occupying the captured fortifications, Qing prisoners, or the riverside terrain following the withdrawal of Chinese forces northward into Manchuria. Gekko's figure style in these war prints draws on his training in the Kanō school while incorporating Western perspective conventions adopted by Meiji printmakers who sought a more documentary visual register than earlier ukiyo-e battle imagery offered. The prints circulated as single sheets or in bound album formats throughout the war period.