Hand to hand combats and naval
battles are featured in this sequence of coloured woodblock prints, but perhaps the most extraordinary of the images is that seen right, showing an underwater skirmish between divers!
Maritime martial arts
Comprising 60 oban panels that form 20 triptychs, a concertina form, Senso-e album of c.1895 that sold for £3200 as part of a May 27 sale of original drawings and watercolours, prints and maps held by Bloomsbury Auctions is a record of events of the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-95 in which Japan’s modernised armed forces gained a swift and comparatively easy victory over the much larger Chinese forces.
