Aiming at the Fan, from the series "Tale of Heike"

Aiming at the Fan, from the series "Tale of Heike," printed in 1971 as a stencil, depicts one of the most celebrated moments in the great medieval war chronicle — the scene in which the young archer Nasu no Yoichi, called upon by his commander Yoshitsune, splits a fan mounted on the prow of a Taira boat with a single arrow shot across the water. The moment combined military skill, poetic audacity, and the inherent drama of the impossible challenge accepted and met. Mori's stencil technique gave the scene the bold graphic treatment that matched its legendary status in Japanese cultural memory.