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January 1, 2017

January 1, 1798

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (January 1, 1798 to April 14, 1861) was a Japanese artist, and is famous for his cats among other things. Here is a tiger and like many of his portrayals the swirl of stripes verges on transcending the frame.


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There are more of his cats on the cover of the book The Tiger in the House, (1922) a classic among the literature on cats, by a man who almost single-handedly created modern American literature, Carl Van Vechten. The book cover for a recent edition of Tiger in the House, uses Kuniyoshi artwork for the cover. 


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Utagawa Kuniyoshi knew well the difference between cats and tigers, despite the blurring apparent in the title of Van Vechten's book.

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