絵本鷹かゞみ ４，５
An 1879 Japanese ehon picture book, volumes 4 and 5 of the Ehon Takagami on falconry, by Kawanabe Kyosai writing as Dokei and published by Kinkadō. The pictures are monochrome woodblock-style prints of falconers in winter landscapes, a noble with a hawk over a bath, a hunting party under blossoming trees, and paired close studies of hawks in flight and mid-strike, showing bold contour lines, dense feather patterning, and strong figure poses a designer could draw on for compositions of birds and riders.
