True Picture of a Live Wild Tiger, Late Edo period, sixth month of 1860
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Harvard Art Museums
Description
A second print depicting a "true picture of a live wild tiger" from 1860, produced when Kyosai was among the first Japanese artists to have direct access to a living tiger and seized the opportunity to record the animal with documentary ambition. The existence of multiple prints from this encounter suggests both the public's enormous appetite for tiger imagery and Kyosai's own fascination with the animal he would return to throughout his career. The tiger occupied in Japanese visual culture a position combining the beautiful, the terrifying, and the deeply symbolic.
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Frequently Asked Questions
True Picture of a Live Wild Tiger, Late Edo period, sixth month of 1860 was created by Kawanabe Kyosai (河鍋暁斎).
True Picture of a Live Wild Tiger, Late Edo period, sixth month of 1860 depicts animals, set at Tokyo.