Explanation on MIT Visualizing Culture: "Yamada [sic] Hampō, an artist new on the scene who appears to have still been in his mid-teens, momentarily outdid the old master [i.e., Kobayashi Kiyochika] in terms of sheer innovation. In an unusual vertical triptych, Hampō created an underwater world where a torpedoed Russian warship sank through a field of floating mines."