The eyes and mouth are drawn round, just like those of an anime character, and you will be captivated. Hijikata Torei was a painter of the Nanpin school in the mid-Edo period, and is known as the founder of the Inaba art world, having trained many disciples. It is moving to think that people at the time would have looked at the works of such a master and imagined the tiger, a creature they had never seen before.