Falconry is the hunting method of releasing a tamed hawk and catching wild birds and beasts is called falconry or falconry.
It began about 4,000 years ago in Central Asia, passed on China and the Korean Peninsula to Japan around the 4th century.
The brave outdoor sports were favored by you.
Emperors such as Emperor Nintoku and Emperor Ichijo, Ieyasu Tokugawa, Omoie Iemochi, etc.
It is the falconer who teaches hawk for you.
The Edo shogunate and the Meiji government had many falconers, but after the war in Showa, volunteers have inherited falconry techniques.
Every year on January 2 and 3, a demonstration of Suwa-style hawk art is held at Hamarikyu Garden.
The tall building behind the falconer is Dentsu Building. Hayabusa is stopped on the skin gloves. This skin gloves are necessary to protect the fist from the sharp claws of the hawk. On the instep side, there was a crest of the Tokugawa family's three-leaf Aoi. Hayabusa has particularly good eyesight in hawks.
This is a demonstration of the technique of catching pigeons released from the roof of the Dentsu Building and releasing them from the ground.
A falcon was released from the rooftop.
On the ground, a falcon swings a pigeon with a thin string. This is called a "hadow".
I'm looking for him around the sky. In the photo below, you can see the falcon in the direction of the falcon's gaze.
It's fast at all. Failure is not allowed to fail. I can't fail even if I take a picture. I'm desperate because it's a one-shot game. When he found the pigeon, he descended from the sky to the opposite side.
As we approached, the falconer released a string at an exquisite timing and flew the pigeon. Soon after, he caught a pigeon in the air and descended to the ground. I began to squeak my wings to eat right away. At this time, the falcon approached quickly and replaced another lean bird meat that had been prepared in advance with a pigeon.
If you just pick up the prey caught on the corner, you will not be able to work.
Hayabusa, who stopped on the falconer's fist and ate plenty of lean bird meat, seemed satisfied.
He was covered with a blindfold mask made in a perfect shape on the head of the falcon, so that he could not see anything so that he could calm his mind and not surprise him in the darkness, tilted his head for a while and turned around right and left. It was a cute gesture that seemed to be holding my ears to see the surroundings.
The fact that you can't see anything is to calm down without any extra stimulation.
This mask had even a golden crown. You can clearly see that you are taking care of the falconus.
In addition to the falconry, there is northern goshawk. young bird has vertical stripes on the chest, but adult bird for more than a year replaces vivid black and white horizontal stripes.
In addition, there is a fearless hawk called Harris Hawk imported from foreign countries. In the same way, "transfer" (a technique of moving back and forth between falconers) and "migrating" (a technique of attracting hawks on trees to fists) are also prepared.
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