2-999-496 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Fusuma: Tigers and Dragon, 1813-1838. These "fusuma," Japanese sliding door panels, were designed to cover two walls of a room forming an "L" shape. They would have surrounded three "tatami" mats on two sides. Each set of four panels forms an open-ended, but stable composition with a tiger and birds on the left and a tiger and dragon on the right. The left set of four is signed and sealed in the left-most panel.