Tiger under a Pine Tree

What you see

The tiger fills nearly the whole lower half, walking toward us with its head low and its yellow eyes fixed on the viewer. Its tail rises in an S-curve halfway up the scene. Above, the knotted trunk of a pine crosses from side to side, and a branch with tufts of needles hangs down to the right.

The browns and ochres of the silk continue into the fur, crossed by dark, wavy stripes. The pine, by contrast, is painted in looser, heavier ink. Keep an eye out for the tiger’s pale whiskers, the vertical inscription at upper right and the two small characters at lower left.