Tiger Family

late 1800s

hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

A great number of tigers used to have live in the Korean peninsula. An old Chinese proverb says: “Korean people hunt tigers half of the year, and tigers hunt people other half of the year.”

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