Cat with Tomato Plant - Takahashi Shotei Art Print
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August 1931. A tuxedo cat pours itself low beneath a staked tomato vine, and Takahashi Hiroaki stops the clock one second before the pounce. He dated the design himself: Showa 6, eighth month. Cat with Tomato Plant has been holding that second ever since.
Follow the spine. It climbs in a sumi-black arc, each hair cut into cherry wood by a carver working at whisker width. Straw-gold eyes lock on something past the paper's edge. One hind leg trails behind, forgotten.
Japanese cat art often favors the napper on a cushion. This animal is all appetite. Above the hunter, vermilion tomatoes swell among teal-viridian leaves. The fruit was still a newcomer on Japanese tables, a Western import ripening in Showa-era yards. Two bamboo stakes cross overhead, chopsticks abandoned mid-meal.
Shin-hanga artists loved a quiet garden. Hiroaki, known to collectors as Shotei, gave this one a pulse. Pewter mist rises behind the fur in soft bokashi gradation, and the whole Japanese woodblock print leans forward with its cat. Hang this art print and the room waits for the leap.
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1. Vertical
Use the sawtooth hanger at the top middle on the back of the frame and hang it on a single screw or nail.
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2. Straight onto screws
Keep it simple: put two screws in the wall at the same height and rest the inner lip at the top of the back of the frame on them.
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