An eagle hovers, ready to swoop. His outspread wings and claws frame the desolate winter landscape in a striking compositional device. The powerful form of the eagle contrasts with the tiny trees, houses and the wooden bucket floating in the bay below.
Impey, Oliver, Hiroshige's Views of Tokyo: A Selection from the Woodblock-Print Series ‘One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo’ by Ando Hiroshige, 1797-1858 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1993), no. 18 on p. 11, illus. p. 29 pl. 18
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