A Hawk Capturing a Crane in Flight
Torii Kiyomasu I (Japanese, active c. 1704–18 (?))
c. 1715
- Medium
- Hand-colored woodblock print; vertical o-oban, tan-e
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 56 × 28.5 cm (22 1/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
