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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,889 works

Handscroll detail: a robed scholar in a canopied boat poled by an attendant, with blue mountains and red seals.

Ode on Returning Home

Qian Xuan, 14th-15th century

Ink painting of waves breaking over rocks on a coast with pine trees, a small boat, and distant hills under a pale sky.

Koyurugi Beach of Sagami Province

Utagawa Hiroshige, 19th century

Ink painting of dark mynah birds with open beaks mobbing a mottled owl perched on a blossoming branch.

Mynah Birds Attacking an Owl

Sesson Shūkei, probably 19th century

Handscroll painting of carp swimming among aquatic weeds, with a red seal and black calligraphy on pale silk.

The Pleasures of Fishes

Zhou Dongqing, dated 1291

Ink handscroll of two pine trees on rocks beside calm water, with distant hills, a small boat, and inscription columns at lef

Twin Pines, Level Distance

Zhao Mengfu, ca. 1310

Ink line drawing of a robed woman standing on rippling water beside a small boat, with a calligraphy page opposite.

Nine Songs

Zhao Mengfu, 14th-15th century

Ink handscroll showing a dragon boat with rowers beside ornate lakeside pavilions and tiled roofs, with red seals at the top

Dragon Boat Regatta on Jinming Lake

Wang Zhenpeng, 14th century (?)

Handscroll painting of a snowy landscape with bare trees, a rustic riverside house, a footbridge, and misty hills.

Snowy landscape with rustic riverside retreat

Liu Songnian, ca. late 12th century

Ink landscape handscroll of a fisherman in a small boat beside willows and bamboo, with calligraphy and red seals at right.

Fisherman

Wu Zhen, ca. 1350

Ink drawing of a multi-storey pavilion with tiled roofs and pines beside misty mountains, with a calligraphy inscription and

The Yellow Pavilion

Xia Yong, ca. 1350

Ink painting of a seated monk beside a pine tree while a bearded scholar kneels opposite him, under pine branches.

Zen Encounter (Niaoke Daolin and Bai Juyi)

Kenkō Shōkei, 16th century

Ink and color landscape leaf with misty mountains, a cart with wheels, pack animals and travelers on a path below.

Landscapes

Ye Xin, dated 1652

Ink painting of bamboo on a fan-shaped leaf with calligraphy and red seals against a speckled gold background.

Bamboo in a spring thunderstorm

Tang Yin, 17th century

Handscroll painting of robed deities riding an ox, horse, donkey and a winged bird across a pale paper ground.

Divinities of the Planets and Constellations

Qiu Ying, 16th century

Six-panel folding screen with mounted paintings, fans and calligraphy, including a maple branch, bird and koi fish.

Paintings and Calligraphy by Literati of Iga Ueno

Fifty-six artists, early 19th century

Ink and color landscape showing a thatched studio pavilion with two figures among trees and rocky outcrops, by Wen Zhengming.

The Cassia Grove Studio

Wen Zhengming, ca. 1532

One Hundred Horses

Giuseppe Castiglione, datable to 1723-25

Ink and color painting of a reclining drunken man with a sword beside a box, on a fan-shaped sheet in a brocade-bordered scro

Drunken Asaina

Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1810

Six-panel gold screen of ink landscape with a large pine, robed figures by a stone table, waterfall and distant mountains.

The Four Accomplishments

Kano Motonobu, mid-16th century

Handscroll painting of a seated Buddha surrounded by bodhisattvas, celestial beings, and devotees on clouds, with calligraphy

“Universal Gateway,” Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra

Sugawara Mitsushige, dated 1257

Handscroll painting of foxes in court dress running on a lawn beside a veranda where a noble in blue robes sits.

Tale of a Strange Marriage (Konkai Zoshi)

Ukita Ikkei, ca. 1858

Ink landscape handscroll with misty rocky peaks, a pagoda, pine trees, and a winding path across hills.

Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers

Kanō Tsunenobu, late 17th-early 18th century

Eight-panel folding screen with reeds, rocks and misty hills in ink and wash, with calligraphy above.

Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers

Maruyama Ōkyo, late 18th century

Six-panel gold screen of women and children in kimono around a low table, with an ink landscape screen at left.

Parody of the Four Accomplishments

Shibata Zeshin, second half of the 19th century

Ink landscape handscroll showing a river, pine trees on rocky banks, distant hills and a village, with red seals.

River Landscape

Xiang Yuanbian, dated 1578

Hanging scroll of robed figures by a misty river with a crane, pine trees and distant mountains, in ink and color.

Four Admirers

Kanō Tsunenobu, late 17th-early 18th century

Painting of autumn ivy with red and green leaves hanging from thin stems, with calligraphy in black ink beside it.

Autumn Ivy

Ogata Kenzan, after 1732

Six-panel screen of a misty lake with mountains, temple pavilions, willows, pines, a bridge and small boats in ink.

View of West Lake

Kusumi Morikage, mid- to late 17th century

Six-panel gold screen with robed figures, pine trees, bamboo, and a seated figure on a pavilion terrace beside rocks.

The Return to Court of the Four Graybeards of Mount Shang (right); Su Shi’s Visit to the Wind and Water Cave (left)

Kano Mitsunobu, late 16th century

Ink and color painting of two kyogen performers in kimono, one seated with a fan, one standing with a large umbrella.

Kyogen Performers

Hanzan, 19th century