Estimate

4.500 - 6.000

Session

8 May 2026

Description

An eagle seizing a monkey (sometsuke ni saru)

Ink and light colour on silk

Depicting an eagle with outstretched wings seizing a monkey amongst craggy rocks, beneath overhanging pine branches

A waterfall in the background



日本画派，十八/十九世纪，《苍鹰攫猿图》，绢本水墨设色。绘苍鹰展翅于嶙峋山岩间擒猿，上有苍松垂枝，远处飞瀑直下，气势雄浑。

123x154 cm

Additional Information

Nota:

The composition, with the eagle in the foreground perched upon angular rocks, an overhanging pine and a waterfall in the background, follows closely the models of the Kanō school, which codified this type of bird-of-prey scene (taka-e) after Chinese Ming prototypes, notably those of Lin Liang. The treatment of the plumage, with individualised feathers rendered in dense ink and soft gradations, and the drawing of the rocks with firm contours and diluted ink washes, are consistent with the production of provincial Kanō ateliers or of painters of Kanō lineage active in the late Edo period.