A Hawk Capturing a Crane in Flight
- Date:
- c. 1715
- Medium:
- Hand-colored woodblock print; vertical o-oban, tan-e
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
A large hawk dominates the composition, its body angled diagonally from upper right to lower left with wings and tail feathers fanned in overlapping scalloped patterns of orange, black, and mustard-yellow against the tan paper. The hawk's curved beak grips the slender neck of a smaller bird, rendered in red and black with a scaly, serpentine texture, its head thrown back below the hawk's own; sparse grass or reed forms appear at the lower right. Hand-colored in orange, black, and yellow-tan tones, this vertical o-oban tan-e print by Torii Kiyomasu I (1710), titled *A Hawk Capturing a Crane in Flight*, presents the two birds filling nearly the entire pictorial field against a plain, undetailed ground.
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A Hawk Capturing a Crane in Flight was created by Torii Kiyomasu I (鳥居清倍) in c. 1715.
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