Tiger and Sage by Utagawa Hiroshige Canvas Print

In the 1830s, this would have felt radical. It still does. A red-robed sage sits calmly with a tiger curled at his feet, while phoenixes, lions, oxen and a sleeping cat drift across a bright green lattice. The room shifts when this goes up the wall stops being background and starts telling a story. Best hung at eye level on a quiet wall where the green has space to breathe a study, a long hallway, or the wall behind a reading chair. Pair with oak, linen, aged leather, and warm brass. Keep nearby colours grounded terracotta, off-white, deep green. Avoid hanging it next to anything equally busy; the lattice and the animals already do plenty. On canvas, the green ground takes on a softer, more painterly feel.