"Our Army's United Effort to Beseige Dainanfu: Ensnarement of the Base Ryueifuku (Waga gun taikyo shite Dainanfu o kakomu Ryueifuku no konkyo o otoshi-iru)"

This print depicts a combined military operation against Dainanfu (Da'nanfu) during the First Sino-Japanese War, illustrating the encirclement and capture of the fortified position called Ryueifuku. The full title emphasizes collective effort—waga gun taikyo, our army's united force—framing the action as a coordinated national achievement rather than individual heroism, a distinction that distinguished some of Gekko's war prints from the single-hero format. The composition likely employs a wide-angle or elevated viewpoint to convey the scale of the encirclement, with Japanese infantry visible at multiple points in the frame converging on the central fortification. Bokashi gradations in the sky and terrain suggest overcast siege conditions, while the fort's architecture provides a focal anchor for the converging troop movements. The Meiji-era vogue for documentary battle prints depended on such legible spatial organization to make unfamiliar Korean and Chinese terrain readable to domestic audiences.