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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,089 works

Ink sketch of a robed standing scholar holding a plum branch, with a reclining figure sketched in the lower left corner.

Album of Sketches by Katsushika Hokusai and His Disciples

Katsushika Hokusai, 19th century

Handscroll landscape by Ma Hezhi with figures by a river, trees, clouds, and a column of Chinese calligraphy at right.

Odes of the State of Bin

Ma Hezhi, mid-12th century

Ink and color album leaf of a robed scholar and attendant beneath a pine by a waterfall, with misty mountains behind.

Scholar viewing a waterfall

Ma Yuan, early 13th century

Horsemen hunting on open steppe, one rider galloping with a falcon flying above, painted on silk fan leaf.

Nomads hunting with falcons

Chen Juzhong, early 13th century

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 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 painting of the monk Bodhidharma in flowing robes crossing water on a reed, with calligraphy and red seals above.

Bodhidharma crossing the Yangzi River on a reed

Li Yaofu, before 1317

Hanging scroll of ink trees on a rocky bank with a seated figure, with calligraphy and red seals in the upper left.

Recluse Fishing by Autumn Trees

Sheng Mao, dated 1350

Ink landscape hanging scroll with tall pines, rocks, a waterfall, and fishermen in a small boat by the shore.

Returning Fishermen

Tang Di, dated 1342

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

Ink sketch of three deer on a hanging scroll above a painting of flowering bush clover with pink blossoms.

Preliminary Drawing of Three Deer Mounted on a Hanging-scroll Painting of Flowering Bush Clover

Ogata Kōrin, early 18th century (drawing); early 19th century (painting)

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