Triumphant Arrival of the Emperor at Shinbashi Station

Kobayashi Kiyochika

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.

Metropolitan Museum of Art