Tethered aircraft often tied with a rope or string

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Kite-flying at a boys' festival in early spring. Colour woodcut by Yoshitora, 1865.

Two blind men being robbed of their sake pot at an inn; above, in a roundel, a kite-flying scene. Coloured woodcut by Shigekiyo, Yoshitora and Kyōsai, ca. 1870 (?).

St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, London: looking west. Etching by G. Cooke, 1827.

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Kites

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Two blind men being robbed of their sake pot at an inn; above, in a roundel, a kite-flying scene. Coloured woodcut by Shigekiyo, Yoshitora and Kyōsai, ca. 1870 (?).

St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, London: looking west. Etching by G. Cooke, 1827.

Kite-flying at a boys' festival in early spring. Colour woodcut by Yoshitora, 1865.