Artworks

Second Army Attacks Port Arthur, November 1894

Artwork · Kobayashi Kiyochika · 1894 · Japanese woodblock print

One of over seventy war triptychs Kobayashi Kiyochika made during the Sino-Japanese war (Henry D. Smith II): Japanese soldiers silhouetted against the setting sun fire across the water, the Chinese running helter-skelter from the fire on the opposite shore. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 383–384, fig. 457. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.