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White peony in bloom beside a dark rock and peony buds on a gold-leaf background, painted in lacquer style.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Peonies

Shibata Zeshin, 1882

Album leaf with a gold border showing many butterflies in ink and color on a pale ground, signed in the lower left.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Butterflies

Shibata Zeshin, dated 1881

Hanging scroll with a large red rising sun over a pale ground, soft horizontal red bands, and a signature with red seal.

Rising Sun

Shibata Zeshin, second half of the 19th century

Ink painting of snowy Mount Fuji above a winter village with thatched roofs, pine trees and small figures in mist.

Mount. Fuji in Winter

Shibata Zeshin, dated 1890

Still life of a tea kettle on a brazier beside a dark tea bowl and red lacquer stand, against a gold leaf background.

Tea Ceremony Apparatus

Painting of the Nativity with Mary, Joseph, the infant Christ, a kneeling shepherd, a boy with a dog, and a distant hilltop t

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Vincenzo Catena, 1520

Gold-ground album leaf of three men with topknots looking at a framed ink landscape with rocks and a bridge.

Three Men Looking at Framed Lacquer Drawing

Album leaf with striped spinning tops, a whip, and a red figure on a pedestal against a grey textured background.

Tops

Watercolor album leaf of tiered rice stacks hanging from a branch beside slender trees with red berries and a small bird, fra

Rice Stacks and Trees

Album leaf showing a fox at left beside swirling pale flames and grey smoke rising from sticks, on a gold-bordered mount.

Fox by Mystic Fire

Brown ink painting of a crow perched on a gnarled bare tree branch, with a red seal mark on the right.

Crow on Tree

Hanging scroll of two macaques beneath a snow-laden pine bough on a pale ground.

Monkeys

Mori Yūsen, early 19th century

Ink painting of two fishermen in a boat on misty water beside reeds, a rock and a bare tree, mounted as a hanging scroll.

Fisherman

Kano Tan'yu, 17th century

Ink painting of a swallow perched on a slender stem beside reeds and broad leaves, on a pale background, in a brocade-mounted

Swallow

Kanō Tsunenobu

Hanging scroll of two cranes beside a rock, one looking up toward a pine branch in ink on a tan ground.

Two Birds

Ganjō Tengaku, dated 1869

Loose ink sketches of several seated and crouching robed figures in East Asian dress on pale paper.

Sketches of East Asian Legendary Figures

Kawanabe Kyōsai, late 19th century

Painting of thatched houses nestled among towering ochre and brown rock formations with dark ink dots and misty hills behind.

Village among Rocks

Shibata Zeshin, 19th century

Hanging scroll of dark ink rock cliffs with a pale waterfall and white spray over rocks at the bottom, in blue brocade mounti

Rocks and Waterfall

Hanging scroll of a dark carp swimming up a misty waterfall in soft gray ink on a tan silk ground.

Carp Ascending Waterfall

Shibata Zeshin, 19th century

Hanging scroll of a courtesan raising a blossoming branch, accompanied by a smaller attendant in a red kimono.

Courtesan and Attendant

Chobunsai Eishi, 18th-19th century

Ink painting of a young boy in a white robe riding a dark ox, holding a long stick, with a red seal in the upper right.

Boy on Ox

Shibata Zeshin, 19th century

Ink painting of two laughing figures in robes, one pointing upward, on a hanging scroll with a green brocade border.

Hanshan and Shide

Kenkō Shōkei, mid- to late 16th century

Hanging scroll of red maple branches above a kettle hanging over a fire, with smoke, dried fungi, and a rock.

Autumn Maple

Shibata Zeshin, late 19th century

Painting of a seated court lady with long black hair in layered red, blue and patterned robes, on pale paper.

Court Lady

Katsushika Hokusai, 18th-19th century

Hand-colored Japanese print of a bald warrior monk with a blue staff, debris flying around a prone figure below.

Rochishin Chopping Off the Head of Nio

Katsushika Hokusai, 18th-19th century

Ink drawing of a long-haired ghost peering around a doorframe, beside a bearded serpentine figure above pine trees.

Ghosts

Katsushika Hokusai, 18th-19th century

Ink sketches of four birds with pink washes and a grotesque lion-like mask design, mounted together on one sheet.

Four sketches of birds and one design for a grotesque mask, mounted together

Katsushika Hokusai, 18th-19th century

Ink and red sketch of a fierce seated deity at an altar, with studies of a robed figure, tassel, pine and wisteria.

Juima

Katsushika Hokusai, 18th-19th century

Tiger

Hokusai School, 19th century

Hanging scroll ink painting of Mount Fuji rising above billowing clouds, with a signature and red seal at lower right.

Mount. Fujiyama

Toyosei Kimigi, 19th century