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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,971 works

Ink painting of a fisherman in a small boat beneath willow and bare trees, with distant mountains and birds in misty light.

Recluse Fisherman, Autumn Trees

Sheng Mao, dated 1349

Hanging scroll of a seated woman in black kimono playing shamisen, with a pine tree and boats on a river behind her.

Female Entertainer with Shamisen

Teisai Hokuba, early 19th century

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

Hanging scroll of a seated judge at a desk with attendants, a bull, and small demons and souls below.

Ten Kings of Hell

Jin Chushi, before 1195

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

Hanging scroll of scholars on a stone bench under a tree examining a painting, with a pavilion, pines and bamboo.

Studying a painting

Zhang Lu, 16th century

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

Hanging scroll of a man and two women in patterned kimono beside a pine with a draped striped robe, with a distant shore.

Yukihira and Two Brinemaidens at Suma

Okumura Masanobu, 18th century

Ink sketch of a seated man in a court robe and black hat, with handwritten Japanese poem text in columns above.

Competition Between Poets of Different Eras (Jidai fudō uta awase), depicting the poet Minamoto no Hitoshi

Fujiwara no Nobuzane, 13th 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

Hanging scroll of a seated robed figure with a staff, flanked by green and red demons, before misty mountains and clouds.

Portrait of En no Gyōja

Jakusai, late 14th-15th century

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

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

Hanging scroll with many irregular panels of paintings and calligraphy showing flowers, insects, deer, figures and a mountain

Collaborative painting and calligraphy by Hōitsu, Nanpo, Bunchō and others

Tani Bunchō, ca. 1820

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

Six-panel gold screen of children playing near a flowering cart and seven seated gods beneath a pine tree.

Seven Gods of Good Fortune and Chinese Children

Kano Chikanobu, 17th-18th century

Women in red and green robes seated on a low platform in a gold-ground palace garden with blossoms and rocks.

Chinese Women in a Palace Garden

Kanō Eitoku, late 16th century

Ink drawing of a monk riding a horse backwards while a striped-robed attendant leads it on a rope.

Monk Renshō Riding His Horse Backwards

Matsumura Goshun, after 1782, ca. 1784

Seated poet in a blue gold-patterned robe holding a fan, with handwritten poems in black ink on pale paper.

The Poet Mibu no Tadamine, from a set of album leaves illustrating The Thirty-six Poetic Immortals

Iwasa Matabei, early 17th century

Court ladies on a veranda watch a deer and an attendant on a grassy slope, framed by gold leaf.

Scenes from Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)

Tosa School, late 18th century

Hanging scroll of a shaven monk with a red box and staff beside a green-faced attendant holding a censer, on a dark ground.

Portrait of Xuanzang (Genjō) with Attendant

Kasuga Motomitsu, 14th century

Hanging scroll portrait of a seated Zen monk in yellow and red robes holding a staff, with calligraphy above.

Portrait of the Ōbaku Zen Monk Jifei Ruyi (Sokuhi Nyoitsu)

Kita Genki, 1666

Sketch for the Portrait of Tachihara Suiken

Watanabe Kazan, ca. 1823

Hanging scroll of a standing courtesan in a striped robe and floral red kimono, looking over her shoulder.

Standing Courtesan Looking Over Her Shoulder

Kaigetsudō Dohan, ca. 1715

Hanging scroll of a woman in a blue floral kimono and red sash, raising her arms to adjust her hair.

Beautiful Woman

Kaigetsudō Dohan, early 18th century

Three hanging scrolls of ink landscapes with pines, mountains, and a central panel of a man with a staff and a seated woman i

Chinese Woman in a Boat and Figures in Landscapes

Kano Kōi, early 17th century

Hanging scroll of two women and a child in a snowy veranda, one painting a white rabbit's eyes held on a tray.

Painting the Eyes on a Snow Rabbit

Isoda Koryusai, ca. 1780

Hanging scroll of three women in kimono viewing cherry blossoms by a lake with swimming white birds.

Three Beauties Viewing Cherry Blossoms

Chobunsai Eishi, late 18th-19th century

Ink painting of water buffalo and herdsmen wading beside a drooping willow tree in misty shallow water.

Buffalo and Herdsman

Kawanabe Kyōsai, ca. 1887