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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,955 works

Ink landscape on a fan-shaped leaf with pine-covered cliffs, a river, a small boat, and distant buildings.

Snowy Landscape

Toki Tōbun, ca. 1550

Two hanging scrolls in ink showing a hawk on a branch with leaves and a hawk perched on a rock.

Hawks

Soga Nichokuan, mid-17th century

Hanging scroll with yellow flowers on grey stems below black calligraphy poems and the character for wind.

Poems on “Wind” from Japanese and Chinese and Poems to Sing

Horie Yorinao, 1670

Hanging scroll of Kannon seated on a lotus petal over water, with a pale moon behind and ink calligraphy beside.

Kannon on a Lotus Petal

Shōzan Gen’yō, 1672

Blue demon with a spear and red banner running, beside a pink-robed fox figure, on a handscroll.

Copy of Night Parade of One Hundred Demons from the Shinjuan Collection

Mochizuki Gyokusen, 18th century

Hanging scroll showing a courtesan in a patterned kimono seated on a white elephant, with calligraphy and seals.

Courtesan of Eguchi

Katsukawa Shunshō, painting:1770−80; inscription: 1820s-30s

Painting of a seated ruler playing pachisi with a kneeling companion, an attendant with a fly whisk, and a yellow backdrop.

Maharaja Sovan Singh playing pachisi

Ambav, ca. 1868

Ink and color portrait of a seated courtier in black robes with calligraphy inscription on the right side.

Portrait of Minamoto no Muneyuki, from the “Fujifusa Version of the Handscroll of Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals”

Emperor Godaigo, early 15th century

Three hanging panels with a dragonfly over flowers, a bird flying over leafy plants, and a bird on a blossoming plum branch.

Birds and Flowers

Kano Motonobu, mid-16th century

Gold-ground album leaf with ink-painted reeds, lily pads, and vertical Japanese calligraphy of a waka poem.

Album of Twelve Waka from Poetry Competition of Poets of Different Eras

Emperor Go-Yōzei, early 17th century

Two-panel screen of a snowy landscape with a thatched hut, pine trees, a figure in a boat, and misty mountains under a gold s

Wang Ziyou Visiting Dai Andao on a Snowy Evening (Ō Shiyū hō Tai Andō zu)

Kanō Sansetsu, mid-17th century

Fan-shaped painting on gold ground: a kneeling man holds a leash to a monkey while a child in blue patterned robes raises a p

Album of Fan-Shaped Paintings of Figures, Birds and Flowers

Kanō Tsunenobu, 17th-early 18th century

Folding fan with white chrysanthemums and green leaves on gold leaf, with bamboo ribs and calligraphy.

Chrysanthemum

Ogata Kenzan, 1743

Hanging scroll of misty mountains, gnarled trees, a small hut, and a waterfall in pale ink and color.

Landscape in Light Colors

Yosa Buson, 1775

Handscroll section of a daimyo procession with a palanquin, mounted riders, spearmen and porters on an ochre ground.

Daimyo Procession to Edo

Hishikawa School, ca. 1700

Court ladies in snowy garden by pine and pond with ducks, and a seated nobleman on a latticed veranda, Genji scroll.

Illustrated Handscrolls of The Tale of Genji

Ryūjo, 1594

Ink painting on a pair of screens showing robed sages in a misty landscape with an ox, waterfall and pine trees.

Chinese Sages

Kanō Sanraku, late 16th-early 17th century

Bird perched on rock beside snow-covered plantain leaves and bare branches against a gold background.

Plantain and Bird in Snow

Kanō Sōshū, late 16th century

Calligraphy scroll with chrysanthemums, grass, and wave motifs in ink on paper, framed in gold and navy brocade.

Chinese Couplet by Bai Juyi and Waka by Fujiwara no Toshiyuki (partial) from “Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing” (Wa…

Konoe Sakihisa, late 16th-early 17th century

Calligraphy of a waka poem beside faint gold pine trees on a pale ground, framed by gold brocade and floral textile.

Section of a Handscroll with Waka and Underpainting of Pines

Hon'ami Koetsu, early 17th century

Hanging scroll with grey and ochre moss fern fronds beside black Japanese calligraphy on pale paper, framed in gold brocade.

Waka Poem from Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern with a Design of Moss Ferns

Hon'ami Koetsu, early 17th century

Ink drawing of a seated monk reading a scroll by a lamp, with a poem in calligraphy and a painted phoenix and branch above.

Monk Kenkō Reading by Lamplight

Prince-Abbot Ryōshō, late 17th century

Watercolor and graphite portrait of a bearded man in a pink turban and white garment, gazing to the side.

Portrait of a Sri Lankan Tamil

Samuel Daniell, 1806-1807

Three ink panels: a seated monk with a dog, a mynah on a plum branch, and two geese beside reeds.

Monk Zhaozhou and Dog, with Geese and Mynah

Unkoku Tōeki, first half 17th century

Handscroll painting of a night parade of demons, including a green oni with a trident and a winged flaming creature.

The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons

Tachibana Gadō, 1892

Ink and color album leaf of a twisted pine with songbirds on branches, rocks and bare plum twigs in the foreground.

Paintings after old masters

Ink landscape handscroll with a pavilion, pine trees, a seated figure, a lattice fence and misty mountains.

The Studio of Prolonged Soughing

You Yin, dated 1851

Two women in kimono, one seated at a writing table and one standing in blue with blossoms, with a child and a white lion dog.

Artisans, Beauties, and Annual Events

Toyohara Kunichika, 1874

Handscroll painting of misty hills, pine trees and white-walled villa buildings with tiled roofs beside rice fields.

Rear View of the Mountain Villa for Watching Clouds

Yu Zouyan, 1844-45

Ink painting of two crabs on a sandy shore with grass, mounted in a dark lacquered screen frame.

Crabs and Peonies

Itō Jakuchū, mid-18th century, before 1766