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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

4,705 works

Two panels of painted children in patterned robes playing with a toy horse, drum, dog, and umbrella on a gold background.

Chinese Children at Play

Six-panel screen with birds perched on flowering branches, bamboo and willow against gold-leaf panels.

Birds and Flowers

Kano Tan'yu, 17th century

Hanging scroll of a green dove perched on a blossoming plum branch beside dark rocks, painted in ink and colour on silk.

Dove on Plum Tree

Kanō Tanshin, 17th-18th century

Gold-ground folding screen with heart-shaped scenes of birds, ducks, plum blossoms, peonies and chrysanthemums by a stream.

Birds and Flowers of Autumn and Winter

Kano Chikanobu, early 18th century

Hanging scroll of two quail on a grassy mound beside tall millet stalks with drooping seed heads, on a pale ground.

Quail and Millet

Kiyohara Yukinobu, late 17th century

Hanging scroll of a woman spinning silk beside a child at a brazier, with three swallows flying above.

Woman Spinning Silk

Katsushika Hokusai, dated 1790

Hanging scroll with ink painting of a man leading a horse laden with yellowtail fish, above a column of calligraphy.

Fish Merchant Carrying Yellowtails on Horseback

Tani Bunchō, 1814

Hanging scroll of small birds on willow branches with pink hibiscus blossoms, inscription and red seals on ochre ground.

Small Birds on a Willow Branch and Hibiscus Blossoms

Tsubaki Chinzan, 1850

Hanging scroll of a snowy winter scene with a pine tree over a shop front, figures, two cats and a paper umbrella.

In Front of a Shop

Katsushika Hokusai, dated 1780

Ink painting hanging scroll of a magpie perched on a curving branch beside white plum blossoms.

Bird and Plum Blossoms

Unpō, 18th-19th century

Hanging scroll of three white herons standing on a snowy rock beneath a willow tree in ink and soft wash.

Herons in the Snow

Nakabayashi Chikutō, ca. 1840

Hanging scroll of a blue kingfisher diving beside tall bulrushes with seed heads on a pale background.

Kingfisher and Bulrushes

Katsushika Hokusai, 19th century

Two white egrets stand in water beneath drooping willow branches, with pink peonies and chrysanthemums on a pale hanging scro

Egrets, Peonies, and Willows

Yamamoto Baiitsu, early 19th century

Hanging scroll with a striped cat curled at lower right, large bold calligraphy and small inscribed poems beside it.

Cat with Poems: Pictorial Parody of Priest Saigyo's Legend

Matsumura Goshun, 18th century

Hanging scroll of a long-tailed bird and a smaller bird perched on gnarled branches with white blossoms and flowers.

Birds and Flowers

Sō Shiseki, 18th century

Ink painting of birds perched on branches and among lotus leaves, rendered in loose gray and black brushwork on silk.

Birds in a lotus pond

Bada Shanren, ca. 1690

Hanging scroll of a flowering crabapple branch with a pair of long-tailed birds perched among white blossoms beside a rock.

Flowering Crabapple and Pair of Birds

Shen Quan, dated 1744

Hanging scroll of two swallows on willow branches in ink with calligraphy and red seals at upper right.

Swallows

Folding fan painting of a brown bird on a rock beside pink blossoms and blue-green leaves, with calligraphy and red seals.

Bird on a Rock by a Flowering Branch

Ren Xun, dated 1879

Two brown songbirds perch on a thorny branch beside pink roses and bamboo, with calligraphy and red seals in the upper right.

Two Birds Perched on a Flowering Rose Bush

Ren Bonian, late 19th century

Hanging scroll ink painting of a black and white cat on a rock, with calligraphy inscription above.

Cat

Grey and black cat with a patterned ribbon crouches by a screen, watching a spider on the floor.

Cat Watching a Spider

Ōide Tōkō, ca. 1888-92

Six-panel gold screen with birds, white plum blossoms on a gnarled tree, rocks, irises, and grasses.

Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons

Kano Sanboku, late 17th century

Hanging scroll of mythical beasts, lions, tigers, cranes and peacocks among rocky mountains and pines, with calligraphy above

Birds and Animals Used in Military Insignia

Zhuwu Jushi, late 19th century

Album leaf of a rider on a grey horse passing a tiered pavilion beneath misty mountains and autumn trees.

Landscape with Man on Horseback

Painting of a yellow songbird on a branch with red fruit and two bees flying nearby on a pale background.

Birds, Insects and Flowers

Yi Zhai, 19th century

Handscroll painting of roosters, pheasants and hens among rocks, flowers, banana plants and flowering trees on silk.

The Hundred Birds

Ink painting on silk of a dark mynah bird perched on a branch beside sketched reed stalks, with calligraphy at left.

Mynah on Reed

Handscroll painting of riders performing acrobatic horsemanship on galloping horses with red and green saddle trappings.

Horsemanship demonstration

Zhao Yong, 19th century

Ink drawing of two deer on a rocky ledge under a pine branch, with vertical calligraphy on the facing page.

Album of miscellaneous paintings