The Tiger of Ryōgoku, from the series True Scenes by Hirokage

A large spotted tiger with a rosette-patterned coat fills most of the composition, its head lowered against a solid black background as it grips a rooster in its jaws; the rooster's red comb, striped neck feathers, and green-and-gold plumage hang limp beneath the tiger's grey muzzle and white whiskers. The tiger's wide yellow eyes and pink nose are rendered in close-up alongside a text panel of vertical Japanese script in the upper left and a red publisher's seal at lower left. This 1860 nishiki-e color woodblock print by Utagawa Hirokage, titled *The Tiger of Ryōgoku, from the series True Scenes*, is framed in tight, close-up composition against a cream mat border.