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ce lasted approximately 2-3 years and in this period oftime Charles Wirgman sent an essay to the mentionednewspaper about the Japanese arts and wrote aboutKobayashi Kiyochika extendedly.In the absence of visual material for the Russian Japanesewar that appears after the death of Wirgman,the newspaper referred to Kobayashi Kiyochika initiallyand in this way Japanese artists had a chance to introducethemselves to Europeans. In his album named Nihonbonzai Hyakusen Hyakusho, there are the depictionsof various Russian generals, doctors, nurses andsoldiers who were present at the 1904-1905 JapaneseRussian war such as Russian general Aleksei NikolaevichKuropatkin, doctor Vassily Dimitra. It is obviousthat some of the works depicting Europeans should beindicated for the researchers who will research aboutthe subject in the future and the followers of this subject.To the ones who wants to see the other examplesabout European figures, the works of Utagawa Hiroshige,Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Nishimori Takeki are recommended.The Most Magnificent Depictions of Cityare MiniaturesAmong the Far East Miniatures Chinese artists createdthe works that pictured the most magnificent depictionsof city. Two works that stand among these worksare quite important both for the detailed depiction ofthe city and adherence to the science of topography.Between these depictions of city, the 1882-dated oneis quite important. This work, which is one of the mostbeautiful examples of city’s depictions that Chineseminiature especially put emphasis on, signed by Chinesemuralist Li Liankun. The most important thing thatattracts attention in this work, which is perhaps themost beautiful depiction of the island of Thailand, isthe perfect use of topographic data. The green colourto signify rivers brings to mind the expression of the alluvial.Even around the island is painted with the samecolor and away from the island the green colour graduallybegins to open up and at the end of a short distancethe colour disappears. With this application shallowwater is specified. Residential units located on theisland stated with the names and numbers of the populationthat are put into cartridges created by meansof geometric forms. It can be assumed that the artistcreated this work to inform people about the islandbecause he both pictured carefully the Pescarodes islandnext to Taiwan island although it is very small andstated the quite important information about the islandby means of writing.Another depiction of city dated 1368 carries very importanthistorical information. The names of muralistand the work are unknown. The original version ofthis work, which has one world map and thirteen de-70

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