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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

32,885 works

Ink painting of lingzhi fungi growing from a square vessel covered in red seal stamps, with calligraphy above.

Plant and Seals

Yokoyama Seiki, dated 1856

Hanging scroll pair: ink landscape of craggy peaks and a pine with a small pavilion, beside cursive Chinese calligraphy.

Landscape and Couplet of Chinese Verse

Ike no Taiga, late 18th century

Hanging scroll showing a cormorant on a sandy bank beside a wicker basket, with a green hill and flowers in the foreground.

Cormorant Fishing

Hanging scroll portrait of a seated bald monk with staff and brush, red robe, and calligraphy inscription above.

Portrait of the Ōbaku Zen Monk Mu’an Xingtao (Mokuan Shōtō)

Kita Genki, dated 1674

Hanging scroll of white and black silkie chickens with crested heads on a gold ground, framed by patterned brocade.

Silkies

Mori Sosen, before 1807

Six-panel ink landscape screen with rocky mountains, a waterfall, bare trees, a thatched pavilion, and calligraphy at upper r

Lake Biwa in Four Seasons

Nukina Sūō, 1834

Ink and wash drawing of two gnarled trees beside a diagonal stone stairway, with calligraphy and red seals at left.

Ten Sites Associated with Ruan Yuan

Wang Jun, dated 1883

Ten-panel screen with ink still lifes of bronze incense burners, vases, and flowering plants on a tan ground.

Still life with bronze vessels and flowering plants

Jang Seung-eop, 1894

Hanging scroll of a woman drawing a bow beside a seated woman and a kneeling bearded armored man on gold ground.

The Legendary Empress Jingū

Kōsai Hokushin, mid-19th century

Six-panel gold screen of people strolling and picnicking under cherry blossoms and pines beside a pagoda, with gold clouds.

Amusements at Higashiyama in Kyoto

Studio of Kano Sadanobu, early 1620s

Painting of Krishna in a tree above bathing women, with herders and cattle on a green hillside, framed in red.

"Krishna Steals the Clothing of the Gopis (Female Cowherds)", Folio from the Devotional Text of the Bhagavata Purana

The Early Master at the Court of Mandi, ca. 1640

Ink painting of bare plum branches with buds on a gold leaf screen, with a wooden frame and inlaid lower panel.

Poem in Chinese on the Theme of Plum Blossoms Reflected in Water

Keibun, ca. 1823

Five women in patterned kimono sit and stand around tea utensils in an interior, painted on a pale scroll.

Five Beauties

Teisai Hokuba, 1840

Woman in patterned kimono holds string to a dog on a wooden veranda as an attendant in red reaches for a ball.

Courtesan and Attendant Playing with a Dog

Nishikawa Sukenobu, ca. 1716-1736

Three hanging scrolls: two with black ink calligraphy and one with a grey ink wash mountain landscape under red seals.

Mountain and Calligraphy

Ike no Taiga, 18th-19th century

Hanging scroll with calligraphy on the left and an ink painting of a small boat beside windblown reeds on the right.

Fishing Boat on Reed Covered Bank and Calligraphy

Ike no Taiga, 18th-19th century

Pair of hanging scrolls: ink village landscape with rooftops and trees on the right, and brush calligraphy with red seals on

Evening Glow in a Mountain Village and Calligraphy

Ike no Taiga, late 18th-early 19th century

Ink landscape of misty mountains, a waterfall, blooming white plum trees, a thatched hut and a seated figure.

Landscapes of the Four Seasons

Takaku Aigai, 1833

Pair of hanging scrolls showing craggy rock mountains, a waterfall, pine trees, and a lakeside village in ink and pale color.

Fantastic Rocks with Cascading Waterfall; Fishing Boats by a Lake Hamlet

Aiseki, first half of the 19th century

Ink and pale wash painting of rocks on paper, with a column of black calligraphy and red seals at upper right.

Rocks

Yosa Buson, late 18th century

Pair of hanging scrolls: gold-on-black moonlit gathering beneath pines, and grey mountain landscape with seated figures aroun

Luring the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Out of a Cave with Music; Death of the Historical Buddha

Kôno Bairei, late 19th century

Ink and light color painting of seated Daruma in a red robe beside a bowl, with brush calligraphy and red seals on the left.

Daruma

Totoki Baigai, 18th century

Hanging scroll of peonies, chrysanthemums and narcissus beside a rock, with red berries and green grasses.

Flowers and Grasses of Autumn

Yamamoto Baiitsu, 1843, 8th month

Folding fan with painted peaches, pomegranate and fingered citron on pale paper, green ribs and dark lacquered guard.

Peaches, Pomegranate, and Fingered Citron

Yamamoto Baiitsu, 1832

Hanging scroll of a ceramic incense burner with lit sticks emitting smoke, beside a round fan on a gray gradient background.

Sparklers on Summer Evening

Shiokawa Bunrin

Ink painting of plum branches with white blossoms in a pale circle, with calligraphy and a red seal at the right.

Plum Blossoms

Motsurin Jōtō, 15th century

Hanging scroll of eight robed men gathered in a room before a misty mountain landscape screen, with a flower vase.

The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup

Tani Bunchō, 1828

Hanging scroll of a woman in pink kimono with a cat on a leash beside a pine tree and red torii gate.

The Third Princess and a Cat, from the "New Herbs I" (Wakana I) chapter The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari}

Matsuno Chikanobu, 18th century

Hanging scroll of Fudō Myōō standing on a rock with four attendants, drawn in fine ink outlines on brown ground.

Fudō Myōō with Four Attendants, Outlined in Seed Syllables

Chikai, Second half of the 15th century

Hanging scroll of two pine trees over rocks, with seated figures and a tea stove in a misty landscape.

Sampling Tea beneath the Wu Trees

Nakabayashi Chikutō, 1840