A pair of full-size six-fold byobu (folding screens) in ink and colours on a gold ground, depicting tigers among bamboo.
The Kano school of painters were responsible for the beginning of screen painting of animals on a grand scale. The leopard was thought by the Japanese to be a female tiger.
This pair is a classic, quintessential Kano product, dating from the early Edo period.

Each screen measures 66 x 147 inches, 167.7 x 373.4 cm.

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