Soft Metal Tiger Menuki
Soft Metal Tiger Menuki
Soft Metal Tiger Menuki
Soft Metal Tiger Menuki
Soft Metal Tiger Menuki
Soft Metal Tiger Menuki
Soft Metal Tiger Menuki
Soft Metal Tiger Menuki

Soft Metal Tiger Menuki

Regular price $320.00 Sale

Soft metal tiger menuki with gilded stripes and spots. When tiger was introduced to Japan by paintings and fur there was a mix up. Japanese artists thought that striped one was a male and spotted one was a female. While in fact striped is a tiger and spotted is a leopard. So while intention of the artist was to show male and female tiger. They actually made menuki of tiger and leopard.

Size: 

1: 34 mm x 21 mm x 6 mm 

2: 33 mm x 21 mm x 7 mm