Japanese Print "A Hawk in Flight" by Katsushika Hokusai
Artist:Katsushika Hokusai
Title:A Hawk in Flight
Date:about 1840
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Source:Worcester Art Museum
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Description:
Hokusai masterfully depicts a Northern Goshawk (otaka) with molting feathers in an uchiwa-fan composition. The goshawk emerges from the clouds in a stoop, or dive, about to attack its prey with its sharp beak and talons. The red seal depicting Mount Fuji is a reference to the belief that to dream of a hawk/falcon, eggplants and Mount Fuji at New Year's is an omen of good fortune. The design of so-called uchiwa-e, to be mounted as non-folding fans on bamboo-rib supports attached to handles, began in the second quar
