# A Hawk Capturing a Crane in Flight

- By: Torii Kiyomasu I (Japanese, active c. 1704–18 (?))
- Date: c. 1715
- Medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; vertical o-oban, tan-e
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: 56 × 28.5 cm (22 1/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
- Culture: Japan
- Credit line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/19165)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/6235ed1f-a58a-ee29-82ae-874e3cb8a1d9/full/!1571,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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