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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

820 works

Hanging scroll of red and white peach blossoms on branches with green leaves, with calligraphy at upper left.

Red and White Peach Blossoms

Tsubaki Chinzan, 1843

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

Birds and Flowers

Sō Shiseki, 18th century

Hanging scroll of red and white peach blossoms on gnarled branches with green leaves and Chinese calligraphy at upper left.

Red and White Peach Blossoms, Preparatory Sketch

Tsubaki Chinzan, 1843

Ink painting of a blossoming plum branch on a gold fan-shaped leaf, with calligraphy and a red seal at upper left.

Branch of blossoming plum

Fan-shaped painting of pink carnations and feathery amaranthus in soft green and yellow washes, with red seals and calligraph

Carnations and amaranthus

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

Ink and color album leaf of a pavilion on a riverbank with trees, a distant shore, and calligraphy in the upper left.

Wilderness Colors

Shitao, ca. 1700

Handscroll painting of white magnolias, pink peonies, red camellias and plum blossoms on gnarled branches against tan silk.

One Hundred Flowers

Yun Shouping, 18th century

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

Ink painting of chrysanthemums beside a tall grey rock with calligraphic inscription and red seals.

Chrysanthemums by a rock

Gao Fenghan, 18th century

Album leaf with pink plum blossoms and blue-green bamboo, with a column of Chinese calligraphy at the left edge.

Landscapes and Flowers

Wang Shishen, dated 1745

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

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

Fan-shaped silk painting of chrysanthemums, grass, two butterflies and a grasshopper, with red seal stamps.

Autumn Splendor

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

Handscroll painting of wisteria, narcissus, peonies and pink blossoms scattered across a golden silk background.

The Hundred Flowers

Hanging scroll of white and pink peonies with grey-green leaves on a tan ground, with red seals and inscription.

Flowers

Hanging scroll of a musk cat beside camellias, with a small bird on a willow branch above, on a muted ground.

Musk Cat

Uto Gyoshi, mid- to late 16th century

Hanging scroll of two pheasants on rocks by water, beneath a flowering tree with green leaves and pale blossoms.

Pheasants among Trees: Flowers of the Four Seasons

Kanō Shōei, probably 1560s

Pair of hanging scrolls with fish in flowing water, a maple branch with autumn leaves, and pink flowers on a rock.

Fish in Summer and Autumn

Maruyama Ōkyo, 1785

Hanging scroll of white plum blossoms on gnarled branches beneath a pale moon, with calligraphy and red seals at right.

White Plum Blossoms and Moon

Itō Jakuchū, 1755

Pair of vertical scrolls: left shows autumn flowers and irises, right shows a plum branch with white blossoms on brown ground

Flowers of Spring and Autumn

Ogata Kōrin, shortly after 1701

Six-panel gold and silver screen with white cherry blossoms and a dark tree trunk at center.

Blossoming Cherry Trees

Sakai Hōitsu, ca. 1805

Hanging scroll of irises in white, purple and pink with green leaves and a pale moth hovering above.

Irises and Moth

Suzuki Kiitsu, ca. 1850

Three hanging scrolls: moonlit pines, a woman in a robe beside cherry blossoms, and a snowy river with boats.

Snow, Moon, and Cherry Blossoms (Yoshiwara in Three Seasons)

Chobunsai Eishi, early 19th century

Songbird perched on a flowering branch with white blossoms and ink-drawn leaves on a grey silk background.

Birds on a Flowering Branch

Watanabe Seitei, ca. 1887

Misty landscape with flowering trees, pines, thatched houses and a boatman on a river beneath layered mountains.

Blossoms by a River

Kawabata Gyokushō, ca. 1887-92

Three hanging scrolls of a misty landscape with waterfall, pines, red maples, and white cherry blossoms, with figures seated

Nunobiki Waterfall, Mount Yoshino, and Tatsuta River

Kanō Tsunenobu, after 1709