Lit. pictures of Tartars hunting. A popular screen painting theme in the late 16th and early 17th century. The pictures typically show a group of mounted horsemen wearing exotic central Asian costumes, hunting deer, boar, and other animals in a landscape setting. The hunters are usually shown encircling the fleeing animals--supposedly an actual practice of central Asian hunters. Because hunting is a warrior activity, it was sometimes combined with scenes of polo dakyū 打毬, another continental male pastime. Notable examples include folding screens *byōbu 屏風 by Kano Sōshū 狩野宗秀 (1551-1601; Kumita 組田 collection, Tokyo), his son Jinnojō 甚之丞 (fl. early 17th century), and an anonymous Kano artist (Asian Art Museum, San Francisco), as well as sliding screens, *fusuma 襖, by Watanabe Ryōkei 渡辺了慶 (d. 1645).