Inoue Yoshika
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Marshal Admiral Viscount Inoue Yoshika was a career naval officer and admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during Meiji-period Japan.
Inoue Yoshika
Marshal Admiral Viscount Inoue Yoshika, 1900
Marshal Admiral Viscount Inoue Yoshika
Ganghwa Island incident
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The Ganghwa Island incident or the Japanese Battle of Ganghwa was an armed clash between the Joseon dynasty of Korea and Japan which occurred in the vicinity of Ganghwa Island on September 20, 1875.
Inoue Yoshika
…Nagasaki. Korean accounts put Korean losses at more than 30 killed, against two Japanese wounded, one of whom later died. The Meiji government used the Ganghwa Island incident as the basis for negotiations producing the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876. A 2002 study of Inoue's surviving report drafts found that the account he…
Japanese marines landing from the Un'yō at Yeongjong Island which is near Ganghwa
The landing of the forces of the Un'yō at Ganghwa Island. Japanese woodblock print.