Sergeant Ōi , Surrounded by Bandits at Sanjiaoyong, Put Up a Hard Fight and Captured the Enemy Banner, and Shouting “Long Live the Empire,” Committed Suicide, from the Series “Mirror of Famous Army and Navy Men”, Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1847–1915,

Sergeant Ōi , Surrounded by Bandits at Sanjiaoyong, Put Up a Hard Fight and Captured the Enemy Banner, and Shouting “Long Live the Empire,” Committed Suicide, from the Series “Mirror of Famous Army and Navy Men”, Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1847–1915, Watanabe Yatarō, Japanese, 1850–1913, Meiji period, 1868–1912, Inoue Kichijirō, Japanese, active late 19th century, 1895, Color woodblock print with embossing, Made in Tokyo, Japan, Asia, Prints, sheet: 14 5/8 × 9 15/16 in. (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)