The cat itself, on a small panel above the entrance, is said to have been sculpted by Hidari Jingoro, a legendary master carver of the Tokugawa period.
In the Tokugawa period, there was a carver named Hidari Jingoro.
2 Since 1990, the Congress and the President have taken action to eliminate the annual federal budget deficit through several initiatives including the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, and the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.