A 6-panel Showa Period Japanese silk screen, hand painted with ink and color on silk, depicting two tigers dominating one mountain each with a creek running through the tranquil landscape. In East Asian culture, tigers was a symbol of strength, which they highly valued. The painting is in the style of the Nanga school.
The signature and seal on right side of the screen belongs to 翠溪 (Suikei) (1894-1985), a pupil of Hashimoto Kansetsu (1883-1945), a prominent Nihonga painter active in the Kyoto art world during the Showa and Taisho eras. Suikei’s works have been collected by several prestigious museums, including the Metropolitan Museum in New York, US.
