The red cartouche in the upper right hand corner reads 鹿児嶋縣 (Kagoshima-ken) 有のそのまま (Ari no sonomama) and also provides the print number in the series, 四 (4). The large print seen on the far right in the yellow scroll reads はら切坂友軍大勝利, a loose translation of which is "the huge win of the armed forces at Harakirizaka [Tawarazaka]."¹ The red cartouches in the center of the print identify the rider on the horse as Major General Miyoshi Shigetomo, the former commander of the Osaka Brigade.

No artist signature or seal appears on this print, or any other of the twenty prints, and neither Waseda University or Kagawa University Library list the artist, but two sources, Andreas Marks², and Kansai University Library³ attribute the prints to Hasegawa Sadanobu II (Konobu I) (1848-1940).

The entire series of twenty prints may be seen on the Waseda University Library website at http://archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/bunko10/bunko10_08061/

For a summary of the brief life of nishiki-e shinbun (newspaper color woodblock prints) see the article Nishiki-e shinbun and Newspapers in Meiji Japan. To view other prints depicting the Satsuma Rebellion see the article Satsuma Rebellion and Saigō Takamori Prints.

^{1 The March 17, 1877 issue of The Japan Daily Mail carried a report from the Nichi Nichi Shinbun stating "We hear that Tawarazaka, where the rebels are posted, is a very strong position, and is called Harakiri-zaka by the Kumamoto people, for they have a saying that if an enemy should capture so strong a place it would be such a disgrace to the defenders that they ought to commit hara-kiri rather than continue war."}

² Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks 1680-1900, Andreas Marks, Tuttle Publishing, 2010, p. 190.