goshawk

#Goshawk Mews, c.1675
Attributed to a Kano school artist
Japan, Edo period, 1615-1868
Ink, color, & gold on paper; mounted as a six-fold screen
On display at Philadelphia Museum of Art 1978-122-1
#BirdsInArt #JapaneseArt
“This screen is unusual in depicting the mews (enclosure) that houses these birds of prey as they are raised and trained for hunting.”

Goshawk

A couple of big crops of a distant one (when aren't they?!) flying off late afternoon.