Word: kakemonos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kakemono is stylized-painted strictly according to Japanese convention. It represents a wind god with animal horns, ears, tusks and claws, plunging headlong, pop-eyed with fright, after his bag of wind...
...other kakemono is realistic, and proves that Kyosai was a sharp-eyed son of Japan's feudal age, which was, like Europe's, an age of falconry. It also shows why the wind god is in such a hurry: a naturalistically painted eagle, sudden as a thunderclap, is swooping down...