This print depicts a military engagement set during one of Japan's historical overseas campaigns, showing samurai forces in combat at a fortified Korean settlement. Kuniyoshi's battle scenes combine careful attention to the different armor styles, weapons, and tactical formations involved with his characteristic compositional dynamism — arrows in flight, smoke, and the press of armed men. Such prints connected Edo viewers to Japan's martial history, here reaching to the Korean campaigns of the late 16th century.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Attacking a Korean city was created by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳).
Attacking a Korean city depicts urban scenes.