# Lions and Tigers in Peony and Bamboo

- By: Yamaguchi Sekkei (Japanese, 1644–1732)
- Date: 1668
- Medium: One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gilded paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Image: 149 x 330 cm (58 11/16 x 129 15/16 in.)
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.10.2)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1972.10.2/1972.10.2_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Sekkei lived and studied painting in Kyoto at the Kano school studio, the center of traditional painting activity in Japan since 1500. The use of gold foil as a backdrop for the frolicking animals served a practical as well as a decorative function. Because traditional Japanese rooms had no windows, interior lighting came from portable oil lamps and wax candles, whose effects were magnified by reflective surfaces.