A Set of Twelve Panels Depicting Hawks (c. 1880 Japan)

F2J0151

28.30 inch wide   55.50 inch high

71.88 cm wide  140.97 cm high

Condition report on request.

A set of twelve late 19th century Japanese watercolour portraits of native indigenous hawks each shown in a different position resting on a ceremonial perch with elaborately decorated banners and knotted ropes. Each with a collectors stamp.

By tradition hawks were given annually to the Emperor from the regions of Japan; the knotted ropes signify, in a lost code, the region in Japan from whence the hawks derive.

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