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Hanging scroll of misty mountains, pine forests, a waterfall and small pavilions beside a stream in muted ink tones.

Mountain Scenery with Streams and Pavilions in the Style of Fan Kuan

Wang Jian, 1667

Hanging scroll with ink sketches of Mount Fuji, pine, swallows, fish and flowers, interspersed with handwritten poems.

Drawings and Poems by Various Artists

Shokusanjin, ca. 1814

Hanging scroll of Willow Kannon holding a willow sprig, with a green halo and jeweled robes against a gold ground.

Willow Kannon

Sakai Hōitsu, probably 1810s

Hanging scroll of a bearded Daoist figure playing a flute before a misty mountain and wave-patterned ground.

The Daoist Immortal Han Xiangzi

Liu Jun, undated, late 15th-early 16th century

Pen sketch of a thatched house with bamboo, a seated woman seen through a window, facing page with calligraphy.

Famous Women

Gai Qi, dated 1799

Handscroll landscape with misty mountains, a river with boats, an arched bridge, a pavilion, and riverside houses and trees.

Reminiscence of Jinling

Two-panel screen of an ink landscape with misty mountains, lakeside houses, pine trees, and a small boat on the water.

“At leisure in a lakeside grove in autumn”

Hine Taizan, 1850

Panoramic ink landscape of jagged mountain peaks with small pavilions and handwritten inscription columns at upper right.

General View of Inner Geumgang

Sin Hak-gwon, mid-19th century

Hanging scroll of an agitated monk in green robes before a fiery altar with billowing smoke and a wrathful deity.

The Fury of Monk Raigō

Kobayashi Kiyochika, ca. 1900

Six-panel gold screen showing a crowded outdoor kabuki performance with stages, pine trees, a bridge, and people in kimono.

Women’s Kabuki

Kanō Takanobu, mid- to late 1610s

Ink painting of a sleeping striped cat curled in a ball, with Japanese calligraphy and a red seal on the left.

Dreaming Cat

Hōzōbō Shinkai, mid-17th century

Hanging scroll of a seated woman in a red kimono holding a kitten, with a shamisen and lacquer box beside her.

Courtesan with a Kitten

Nishikawa Sukenobu, early 18th century

Hanging scroll of a standing robed figure in a dark cap holding a plum branch with white blossoms against a plain background.

Tenjin Traveling to China

Nagasawa Rosetsu, 1787-88

Hanging scroll of a woman in a flowered green kimono leaning on a wooden railing beside a shoji screen.

Lady-in-Waiting at Edo Castle

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, ca. 1854-60 (Ansei era)

Hanging scroll: a red-robed figure with a torch at a staircase, a kneeling attendant by a fire, and dark-robed figures below.

Activities of the Twelve Months

Sakai Hōitsu, late 1790s

Hanging scroll of pink lotus flowers and buds among green leaves, with small fish in the pond below.

Red lotus and fish

Hanging scroll of seated White-Robed Kannon in white robe with gold jewelry, before pine, waterfall and cliffs, with calligra

White-Robed Kannon

Sakai Hōitsu, 1823

Hanging scroll showing a rooster, a carp streamer, a red-robed Shōki figure with a sword, and bamboo banners.

Boy’s Day Carp Streamer and Shōki Banner

Kawanabe Kyōsai, before 1870

Ink and light color album leaf of a garden with a pavilion, pine tree, rock, figures and distant misty hills.

Garden scene

Wu Tao, 1867

Six-panel gold screen showing a striped tiger reclining beside a waterfall and rocks, gazing toward the viewer.

Tiger, Tigress and Cub

Kishi Chikudō, 1892

Six-panel gold screen with a twisted cherry tree in white blossom and drooping willow branches above green hillocks with smal

Cherry and Maple Trees

Sakai Hōitsu, early 1820s

Two figures in green lotus-patterned robes on an album leaf, with black calligraphy and red seals beside them.

Painting Album of Sublime Talent

Various Artists, ca. 1815

Woman in a patterned kimono cooling herself with a fan on a bench by a stream, with irises and a leafy branch.

Woman Cooling Herself

Utagawa Toyohiro, ca. 1800

Hanging scroll of a large carp with spread fins swimming among smaller fish and loose ink-brushed water plants.

Nine carp

Gong Gu, 19th century (?)

Two-panel screen of a white crane with raised wing beside a rock, bamboo, orange blossoms and a gnarled pine on gold ground.

Crane, pine, and rock

Chen Zhaofeng, late 19th century

Blue leaf with black Japanese calligraphy, gold grasses, clouds and faint wave lines beneath the text.

Scenes and Calligraphic Excerpts from The Tale of Genji

Tosa School, early 17th century

Hanging scroll of a woman in a red hood and cloak, with calligraphy and a red seal above her.

Courtesan as Daruma

Utagawa Toyoharu, ca. 1800; inscription ca. 1810

Hanging scroll of windblown bamboo leaves framing a waterfall over rocks, painted in grey ink on warm paper.

Windblown bamboo

Hanging scroll of a long-haired ghostly woman in white beside moonflower vines under a full moon.

The Spirit of the Deceased Yūgao Entwined in Moonflower Vines, based on the print “The Lady of the Evening Faces,” fr…

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, ca. 1892

Hanging scroll of a seated woman in purple robe on a veranda gazing at a moon over misty mountains.

Murasaki Shikibu at Ishiyamadera Temple, based on the print “The Moon at Ishiyama,” from the series One Hundred Aspec…

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, ca. 1892