Triptych: Battle of Taikozan Oki: Victory for the Japanese Navy Offshore (Nishin sensô Taikozan Oki Nikkan senshô no zu), Meiji period,

This Meiji-period triptych by Ogata Gekko (1859–1920) depicts a naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895), specifically a Japanese victory offshore at Taikozan. Sensō-e (war prints) constituted a mass-market genre during the conflict, with Gekko, Kobayashi Kiyochika, Mizuno Toshikata, and others producing battle imagery rushed to market within days of reported engagements. The ōban triptych format was standard for sensō-e, maximizing horizontal space for naval panoramas showing warships, cannon fire, churning waves, and imperial battle flags. Gekko's composition combines compositional conventions inherited from feudal-era battle print traditions with renderings of Western-style steam-powered warships and modern naval ordnance, reflecting the Meiji-period challenge of depicting contemporary technological warfare through woodblock vocabulary developed for samurai combat. The title explicitly frames the engagement as a Japanese naval victory, consistent with the patriotic framing characteristic of sensō-e published during the war.