Title: Tethered Hawks
Object type: Screens
Date: before 1606
Culture: Japan
Period: Momoyama period (1573–1615)
Artist:  Soga Chokuan 
Artist bio: Japanese, active ca. 1596–1615
Artist nationality: Japanese
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Twelve paintings mounted as a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Overall (each screen incl. frame): 68 3/8 in. × 11 ft. 10 3/8 in. (173.7 × 361.7 cm)
Image (outer two panels, each screen): 48 1/2 × 19 5/8 in. (123.2 × 49.8 cm)
Image (inner four panels, each screen): 48 1/2 × 20 1/2 in. (123.2 × 52.1 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2018
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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