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The Property of a Gentleman

Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889) | Picture of a Real, Wild Tiger Drawn from Life (Shojin moko shasei no zu) | Edo period, 19th century

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The Property of a Gentleman

Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889) 

Picture of a Real, Wild Tiger Drawn from Life (Shojin moko shasei no zu)

Edo period, 19th century


woodblock print, signed Oju Kyosai, published by Ebisuya Shoshichi (Kinshodo), 5th month 1861, depicting a caged tiger feeding on the carcass of a fox 


Vertical oban: 37.9 x 25.8 cm., 14¼ x 10⅛ in. 

For a further example of the same print, see Shigeru Oikawa et al., This is Kyosai: The Israel Goldman Collection, (Tokyo, 2017), no. 62.