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Color woodblock print of a kneeling woman in a green kimono looking at a striped tiger painted on a folding screen beside a lacquer box.

Tiger, from Fashionable Twelve Signs of the Zodiac

A woman in a green patterned kimono kneels before a folding screen on which a striped tiger prowls across a pale ground. She gazes up at the animal beside a small lacquered box and tray on the floor. The color woodblock print uses flat areas of green, ochre and gray with bold black outlines.

Artist
Isoda Koryusai
Date
c. 1770/72
Medium
Color woodblock print; chuban
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
1686 × 2230 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1777).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection

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