「梟吹雪」手拭モデル紹介 The model of the "Ural Owl in the Snowstorm"

The owl in the “Ural Owl in the Snowstorm”’ Tenugui is called Shozabro Actagawa (actually, this first name is male in Japanese, but the owl is female). She lives at “Aquapia Akutagawa (a museum for the Akuta river)” in Takatsuki, Osaka. She is a wounded bird. She had injures to her light body, so she cannot fly. I reflected her light eye and wing in the Tenugui design. I went to Aquapia twice and I took many close up photographs.
「梟吹雪」手拭のモデルは，芥川翔三朗さんという傷病鳥である．「彼女」は，あくあぴあ芥川（大阪高槻市）に在住中．体の右側に怪我をしており，飛ぶことができない．この図案には右目と右の翼が反映されている．あくあぴあ芥川へは，二度お邪魔して超・ドあっぷ写真を撮らせていただいた．

Toes and talons　ゆびとつめ
Such close up detailed photographs are rare, but those are necessary for artists. Should I make an only toes of birds photo book by myself?
絵描きが必要とするこういう「部分的あっぷ写真」は，探してもないんである．鳥脚写真集を自分で作るかなぁ．．．








Tail　お
This photograph was not any help to me, so I searched for Ural Owl's tail photographs at library. However, Ural Owl's tails are mostly hidden by branches or trunks... I went to watch Ural Owls at a Zoo, but they had poor feathers because those were changing and growing. I was disappointed!
これがなんだかいまいち参考にならなかったので，もぅすこし整ったものはないかなぁ，と図書館で調べたが，たいがいフクロウの尾は枝や木の幹で隠れていて役に立たなかった．．．動物園へも観に行けど，生え変わり中でボロボロ．タイミングが悪くがっかり．




Eyes　め
She is not going to wink, but she is lovely.
ウフっと愛想をふりまいているわけじゃない（埃でも入ったのか，俊膜の動かない痛めた右目をよく閉じていた）んですが．．．かわゆい











her teary-eyes are cute, aren't they?
うるうるした瞳がcute









Sadly, she flew away to heaven in January 2017. I wanted to meet you again with the completed Tenugui. Thank you so much. I loved you.
とても悲しいことに，彼女は2017年1月に天国へ飛び立ってしまった．できあがった手拭を持って，もう一度あなたに逢いたかった．．．ありがとう，翔三朗さん．あなたがいてくれてわたしは嬉しかった．