凱旋新橋ステーション御着之図|Illustration of the Arrival of the Emperor at Shinbashi Station Following a Victory (Gaisen Shinbashi stēshon gochaku no zu)

Kobayashi Kiyochika

1895 · Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

This triptych created at the height of the Sino-Japanese War (1894–95) imagines the arrival of Japan’s Meiji Emperor at a major train station in the capital of Tokyo. The figures’ military regalia in the foreground and the patriotic display of flags around Tokyo Station in the far-right distance both celebrate military, economic, and industrial modernization, key aspects of Japanese nationalism at the turn of the twentieth century.

Artist

Kobayashi Kiyochika

Date

1895

Medium

Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959