About This Print
Source: The Sino-Japanese War, Nathan Chaikin, self-published, 1983, p. 90.
Depicting Japanese troops taking a Chinese battery above the strategic town of Newchwang (Niuzhuang), the battle was fought in brutally cold weather during the first week of March 1895. Frostbite claimed more casualties than the actual fighting, although before the town was taken by the Japanese they would encounter fierce resistance and house-to-house fighting. Involved in the fighting for the Japanese were their 3rd and 5th Divisions attacking from different directions. Japanese losses were 70 killed and 319 wounded, while the Chinese lost over 2,000 men with 635 soldiers taken prisoner.Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #1810 |
| Title or Description | The Occupation of the Fortress at Niuzhuang: The Battle of Lieutenant Colonel Imada 牛荘城占領今田中作戰闘之圖 Gyūsōjō senryō: Imada chūsa sentō no zu |
| Artist | Adachi Ginkō (active 1874 – 1897) |
| Signature | no signature |
| Seal |  吟光 Ginkō |
| Publication Date | March 1895 (Meiji 28) [publication date appears in left margin, but is trimmed from this print] |
| Publisher | Hasegawa Tsunejirō [Marks: pub. ref. 469] [publisher information appears in left margin, but is trimmed from this print] |
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| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| condition | good - three separate unbacked panels; minor wrinkling throughout; slight toning throughout; margins trimmed to image |
| Genre | ukiyo-e - senso-e (Sino-Japanese War) |
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| Format | vertical oban triptych |
| H x W Paper | right sheet: 13 3/4 x 9 1/16 in. (34.9 x 23 cm) center sheet: 13 7/8 x 9 in. (35.2 x 22.9 cm) left sheet: 13 13/16 x 8 3/4 in. (35.1 x 22.2 cm) |
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| Collections This Print | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2000.27a-c; Princeton University Art Museum 2008-97a-c |
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