Mallard taking off directly from water surface

　A mallard takes off directly without the approaching run. It flaps down the wing from backward up to forward down with vigor and produces the initial flow past the wing. To enlarges the initial flow past the wing, the mallard takes off toward the windward and kicks the water backward by full opened webfeet.
　We recall the colored openwork of the taking off waterfowls decorated the fence and the corrider of the Yomei-mon in Tosho-gu Nikkou. It is a milestone of the pioneering bird carving in Japan, which beban at the wooden bird carving excavated from the Shijo-ruins in Kashihara Nara and developed into the carvings of the bantam and the taking off hawk with the delicate cut of the rachis and the barb by Koun Takamura. (Prod. Oct. 2003, scale 1/2, No.2)