“As if Angelico paints Jakuchu’s tiger…” was created with the idea of what kind of influence Angelico would have if he had seen Jakuchu’s paintings and what kind of work would he paint? Since Takahashi himself is a painter who studied the Western technique of tempera in oil, he says that the images, motifs, and compositions of his paintings changed and expanded greatly in this newly constructed attempt, influenced by traditional Japanese painting.