A Hawk Capturing a Crane in Flight
Torii Kiyomasu I
1710–1718
- Medium
- Hand-colored woodblock print; vertical o-oban, tan-e
- Dimensions
- 56 × 28.5 cm (22 1/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- woodblock print
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printasian artJapanese (culture or style)woodblock print
About
This work is one of a group of several prints of fierce, proud, and powerful birds of prey signed by or attributed to Torii Kiyomasu I. Many of the designs are similar to those appearing in The Clenched Fist, a book on falconry published in 1687.
