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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,431 works

Woodblock print of a honeycomb with wasps beside a patterned box, a spoon and a knife, with Japanese calligraphy above.

Hives with Wasps, and a Box with a Spoon for Honey

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Japanese woodblock print of a bearded elder on a decorated treasure ship with patterned sails and seated attendants.

Boat of Good Fortune

Woodblock print of New Year decorations with pine, bamboo, tassels and layered patterned textiles, with calligraphy.

New Year Decoration and a Set of Bed-Clothing

Hachifusa Shūri, 18th-19th century

Figures in robes sit and stand around a low table on rocks, gazing at a moon above distant mountains in a Japanese print.

Nanamaro and His Followers Looking at the Moon in China

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Diptych woodblock print of two figures in kimono before Mount Fuji, one holding a walking stick, the other in a flat straw ha

The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro as a Tall Woman in a Flat Straw Hat

Katsukawa Shunshō, ca. 1778

Woodblock print of a woman in a floral pink kimono on a green bank, gazing toward a horned demon's head in the water below.

A Girl on the Edge of a Stream Sees a Demon's Head in the Water

Komatsuken Shoshoken

Japanese print of men and women in layered court robes dancing, with vertical calligraphy and a folding fan at lower right.

Men and Women in Court Costume Dancing

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Two kabuki actors with swords in dramatic poses under a crescent moon and streaking clouds in a night sky.

The Actors Otani Tomoemon I and Bando Mitsugoro I

Katsukawa Shunshō, ca. 1776

Woodblock print of a scowling man with dark hair, a yellow rope at his collar, against a pink and black radiating background.

Head of an Unidentified Actor as a countryman in Rags

Katsukawa Shun'ei, ca. 1793

Woodblock print of a wooden measure of green peas, a cup on a red stand, holly sprigs and dried fish, with calligraphy.

Green Peas in a Measure and Sprays of Hollyhock with Heads of Sardines; Symbols Representing the Ceremony of Exorcisi…

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Two kabuki actors in patterned kimono stand beside bamboo and a shoji screen, in a 1788 woodblock print.

Kabuki Actors Sawamura Sōjūrō III and Sanogawa Ichimatsu III in "A Courtesan’s Mirror for the Eastern Provinces" (Kei…

Katsukawa Shunkō, 1788

Woodblock print of two kabuki actors in patterned kimono before shoji screens and snow-laden bamboo.

Kabuki Actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II and Ichikawa Danjūrō V

Katsukawa Shunshō, ca. 1780s

Japanese print of a toy bow with arrows and a pine-decorated drum with cords, with calligraphy on the left.

Hama-Yumi and Buriburi-Gitcho, Boy's Toys, for the New Year Celebration

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Ink and color print of a seated man in a dark robe and tall hat beside a tied bundle, with a signature and red seal.

Portrait of Rikyū (?)

Shibata Zeshin, ca. 1875

Pale white macaw perched on a red and gold rod beside decorated cups, set within a black circular field with red seals.

A White Macaw

Itō Jakuchū, ca. 1900

Woodblock print of a seated kabuki actor preparing papers beside a folding screen with a plum branch and a brazier.

Ichikawa Danjūrō VII Preparing New Year's Gifts

Utagawa Kunisada, ca. 1830

Woodblock print of a seated courtesan holding a plum blossom branch, with calligraphy above and an animal figure at right.

Courtesan with Branch of Plum Blossoms

Totoya Hokkei, 1835

Engraving of a seated draftsman sketching beside a standing man, with a classical statue and brazier in a dim interior.

The Drawing Lesson

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, 1749-83

Grey graphite study of a circular ceiling with a central medallion, clouds, allegorical figures and panels, by Thomas Couture

Study for the decoration of the ceiling of the Opéra Comique

Thomas Couture, ca. 1857

Pastel drawing of a female nude bending forward to dry her leg, hair falling down, on an ochre paper ground.

Bather Drying Herself

Edgar Degas, ca. 1892

Pencil sketch of a seated man in classical robes with a laurel wreath, with dancers and musicians sketched in the background.

Male figure in classical costume

Gustave Doré, 1845-83

Graphite sketch on brown paper of a hunched, bowed seated man with head lowered and arms drawn close to the body.

Study for Ugolino

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 19th century

Drawing of a seated man with long hair in a pink cloak, resting his hand on bagpipes, colored with pencil and wash.

The Bagpipe Player

Guillaume Bodinier

Lithograph of an astonished bearded man in a robe standing on a spiky curved earth, from a newspaper page.

Galileo, astonished by changes in the face of the earth, from "News of the Day"

Honoré Daumier, February 21, 1867

Pen and wash drawing of a bishop with a crozier giving alms to a kneeling man in a columned interior with landscape.

Saintly Prelate Distributing Alms

Christoph Amberger, 1505-62

Circular pen and grey wash drawing of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, with a priest holding the infant at an altar.

The Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple

Sebald Beham, early to mid-16th century

Circular pen and ink drawing with wash of a garden of love, with bathing women, courting couples, musicians and a town skylin

The Garden of Love

Jörg Breu the Younger, 16th century

Circular drawing of Neptune raising a trident in a shell chariot pulled by sea horses over waves, with cliffs behind.

Neptune in his Chariot

Pieter de Jode, late 16th-mid 17th century

Pen and wash drawing in a circle of the Circumcision of Christ, with a priest holding the infant and the Virgin watching.

The Circumcision of Christ

Sebald Beham, 1510-50

Pen and ink drawing of Saint John the Baptist with a lamb in a wooded wilderness, within a circular format.

Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Hans von Kulmbach, ca. 1510-15