Triumphant Arrival of the Emperor at Shinbashi Station
Kobayashi Kiyochika Japanese
Not on view
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.
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