This is an original Meiji-period ukiyo-e triptych titled Waga Gun Gaisen Kunko Shoshi no Zu (Our Army's Triumphant Return: Bestowal of Awards for Merit) by Utagawa Kokunimasa, published in Tokyo in 1895 (Meiji 28) at the close of the First Sino-Japanese War. Kokunimasa (1874-1944), a pupil of Utagawa Kunisada III who also signed as Baido Kokunimasa, was one of the most active designers of war prints during the conflict, and this scene shows the ceremony after the victory: officers in dark dress uniforms with red sashes and medals stand before a draped dais with a vase of peonies, while a commander presents a scroll of commendation at a table covered in wave-patterned cloth. The publisher's cartouche on the right sheet gives the printing and publication dates in Meiji 28 and names Katada Chojiro of Asakusa, Tokyo, as printer and publisher, and each sheet carries the artist's signature and seal. Prints of this kind were the news media of their day and were issued within weeks of the events they depict.