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*''Japanese'': 鷹狩 ''(takagari)''
Falconry (lit. "falcon hunting") was a popular pastime among the samurai. Not only an elite and presumably enjoyable pastime in itself, the falcon also came to be associated with the samurai class itself - highly trained and dangerous, but restrained, controlled, and awaiting orders.<ref>Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Press (2012), 30.</ref>
Signalling batons called ''zai'' (麾), and similar to the ''[[saihai]]'' used in battle, were used in falconry.<ref>"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%87%87%E9%85%8D Saihai]." ''Sekai daihyakka jiten'' 世界大百科事典. Hitachi Solutions, 2012.</ref>
The shogunal falconry grounds were taken out of use in [[1721]]. Falconry was not practiced there after that date, but the lands remained off-limits to commoners.
As a result of the popularity of the practice, and of the martial associations, falcons were a common theme in hanging scroll, ''[[fusuma]]]'', and ''[[byobu|byôbu]]'' paintings prized by the samurai. A painting of a falcon conveyed that the painting's owner valued both ''bun'' and ''bu'' - that he was both martial, strong, tough, fierce, and also cultured, with an aesthetic sense and appreciation for paintings. Eagles (J: ''washi'') were a common theme as well, because of a saying that eagles look up to none (''ue minu washi''), which made eagles therefore an apt association with samurai hierarchy and elitism.<ref>Screech, 48.</ref>
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Falconry (lit. "falcon hunting") was a popular pastime among the samurai. Not only an elite and presumably enjoyable pastime in itself, the falcon also came to be associated with the samurai class itself - highly trained and dangerous, but restrained, controlled, and awaiting orders.<ref>Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Press (2012), 30.</ref>
Signalling batons called ''zai'' (麾), and similar to the ''[[saihai]]'' used in battle, were used in falconry.<ref>"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%87%87%E9%85%8D Saihai]." ''Sekai daihyakka jiten'' 世界大百科事典. Hitachi Solutions, 2012.</ref>
The shogunal falconry grounds were taken out of use in [[1721]]. Falconry was not practiced there after that date, but the lands remained off-limits to commoners.
As a result of the popularity of the practice, and of the martial associations, falcons were a common theme in hanging scroll, ''[[fusuma]]]'', and ''[[byobu|byôbu]]'' paintings prized by the samurai. A painting of a falcon conveyed that the painting's owner valued both ''bun'' and ''bu'' - that he was both martial, strong, tough, fierce, and also cultured, with an aesthetic sense and appreciation for paintings. Eagles (J: ''washi'') were a common theme as well, because of a saying that eagles look up to none (''ue minu washi''), which made eagles therefore an apt association with samurai hierarchy and elitism.<ref>Screech, 48.</ref>
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==References==
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[[Category:Culture]]