This card depicts Marshal Oyama’s entry into Mukden. Ōyama Iwao was one of the founders of the Imperial Japanese Army. In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 he was appointed the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese armies in Manchuria. He personally directed the tactics of Japanese forces in all major battles, including the Battle of Mukden. Mukden was a Russian stronghold in the Far East where the Tsarist state started building the South Manchurian Railway. The Battle of Mukden was the last and the most decisivemajor land battle of the 1905 Russo-Japanese War. It showed that European armies were not necessarily superior to “Asiatic” ones, and could be decisively outmatched in battle.