Japanese Animal Wall Art

Wake up a quiet wall with the creatures of Japanese folklore and street life with our Japanese animal wall art. Featuring roaring tigers on red, cats slurping ramen, and red-crowned cranes in flight, these bold wall art prints bring character and humor to your home decor.

What's in the collection

Each print gives one animal the whole sheet. Tigers appear in blue against coral pink, roaring in front of a red sun, and in a tight crop printed like an old screen print. Cranes stand in a pine above a still lake or fly across a Hokkaido sky, while koi and goldfish circle each other in pale water. Dragons wind around pagodas in gold and in red. Cats cover the lighter side, sleeping on a Tokyo rooftop or slurping noodles from a bowl, a pairing that also suits kitchen wall art.

One house style

The animals are drawn with a firm outline and flat, saturated color, closer to a poster than a painting. Red is the recurring accent, in a rising sun, a banner or a dragon's scales. Because the subjects are strong, one print is usually enough for a small wall; group them only when the palettes match, such as a coral tiger beside a pink goldfish. For softer company, hang them near Japanese botanical wall art, and find the rest of the range in our Japanese wall art.

Sizes, paper and framing

Every design is offered on archival matte paper in nine sizes from 8" x 12" to 30" x 40", plus A4-A1 for European frames, and on matte canvas either stretched on a wooden bar or set in a solid wood floating frame in white, black, espresso or natural. Printed with pigment-based archival inks, rated to resist fading for decades indoors.

Questions about Japanese animal wall art

What do the animals mean in Japanese animal wall art?

In Japanese tradition the crane stands for long life, the koi for perseverance and luck, the tiger for strength and the dragon for protection. The koi print carries the words symbol of luck, and one tiger print reads chikara to yuuki, strength and courage.

Are the ramen cat prints part of Japanese animal wall art?

Yes. They are the playful end of the collection and hang well in a kitchen or dining area.

What size Japanese animal wall art suits a hallway?

Narrow walls take the smaller portrait sizes, while a living room wall can take a large canvas. The wall art size guide shows each size in a room.