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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

820 works

Two orange-breasted birds perch on a branch beside hanging blue wisteria and green leaves on a pale silk ground.

Birds and Flowers

Watanabe Seitei, ca. 1887

Pair of hanging scrolls with pink roses, white blossoms, green leaves and small birds on a pale background.

Roses and Field Sparrow (?)

Hasegawa Gyokuhō, 19th century

Album leaf of a dark oil lamp with smoke beside a branch of plum blossoms, signed with a red seal.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Plum Branch with Oil Lamp

Shibata Zeshin, 1882

Fan-shaped painting of pink peonies, lotus, chrysanthemums and wisteria with butterflies and a dragonfly on a gold ground.

Summer Flowers

Katsushika Isai

Ink drawing of plum branches with pale blossoms and calligraphic inscription at upper left, by Li Fangying, 1742.

Album of Blossoming Plum

Li Fangying, 1742

Painting of a grasshopper on a curling gourd vine with a white flower and two green gourds on a pale background.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Grasshopper on Gourd Vine

Shibata Zeshin, 1882

Six-panel gold screen with peonies, chrysanthemums, irises and grasses over green rocks, with green clouds above.

Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons

Kano Mitsunobu, late 16th century

Ink painting of a gnarled plum branch with pale blossoms beside a full moon, with vertical calligraphy at upper left.

Drenched in Moonlight

Tong Yu, 18th century

Album leaf of a green pigeon perched on a branch with pink peach blossoms, with calligraphy and a red seal.

Album of Copies of Chinese Paintings

Kanō Tsunenobu, 17th century

Fan-shaped album leaf with green grass, curled ferns, a yellow flower and pine sprigs on a pale ground, with a red seal.

Flowers on Grass

Shibata Zeshin, late 19th century

Hanging scroll of three waxwings among white cherry blossoms, bamboo, and a rock beside a stream.

Waxwings, Cherry Blossoms, and Bamboo

Kiyohara Yukinobu, late 17th century

Hanging scroll of ink-wash flowers and leaves rising from a textured vase, with a signature and red seals in the upper right.

Autumn Flowers in a Bamboo Basket

Yosa Buson, 1760s

Fan-shaped album leaf with green grass, wooden clappers and faint pink and white flowers on a gold-flecked mount.

Flowers (pink and white) and Leaves, Clappers

Shibata Zeshin, late 19th century

Hanging scroll of a plum tree with dark ink branches and white blossoms rising across a pale silk background.

Plum Blossoms

Yamamoto Baiitsu, dated 1851

Hanging scroll showing a cormorant on a sandy bank beside a wicker basket, with a green hill and flowers in the foreground.

Cormorant Fishing

Ink painting of a gray gourd vase holding a small flower sprig on a fan-shaped leaf, with calligraphy and red seal.

Flowers in Gourd

Shibata Zeshin, late 19th century

Ink painting of bare plum branches with buds on a gold leaf screen, with a wooden frame and inlaid lower panel.

Poem in Chinese on the Theme of Plum Blossoms Reflected in Water

Keibun, ca. 1823

Hanging scroll of peonies, chrysanthemums and narcissus beside a rock, with red berries and green grasses.

Flowers and Grasses of Autumn

Yamamoto Baiitsu, 1843, 8th month

Fan-shaped album leaf with long grass blades and pale pink and white flower clusters on a gold-speckled mount.

Flowers and Leaves

Shibata Zeshin, late 19th century

Ink painting of plum branches with white blossoms in a pale circle, with calligraphy and a red seal at the right.

Plum Blossoms

Motsurin Jōtō, 15th century

Fan-shaped painting of white cherry blossoms on a branch with brown leaves, beside an ink rock, mounted on a hanging scroll.

Cherry Blossoms

Sakai Hōitsu, 18th century

Ink sketch of a demon mask beneath a pine tree with two birds flying, with calligraphy and red seals beside it.

Album of Fifty-four Sketches

Watanabe Kazan, 19th century

Hanging scroll of blossoming plum branches rising from an ink rock, with calligraphy and red seals at upper left.

Plum Blossoms

Minagawa Kien, 18th-19th century

Hanging scroll of white hollyhocks and red prince's-feather flowers with a small butterfly on cream background.

Hollyhocks and Prince’s-Feather Flowers

Sakai Ōho, early 19th century

Hanging scroll of calabash vine with broad leaves, white blossoms, curling tendrils and a green beetle on pale silk.

Calabash Flowers and Beetle

Maruyama Ōshin, early 19th century

Hanging scroll of a woman and small child beneath a blossoming cherry tree, in striped red robes and green clothing.

Woman and Child under a Cherry Tree

Utagawa Toyohiro, late 18th-early 19th 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

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

Painting of a seated couple and a child with a flower by a stream, with a gabled Victorian house in a sunlit meadow.

Summer Flowers

Jerome Thompson, 1859

Hanging scroll of white hibiscus, pink blossoms and two small birds on a pale background.

Flowering Shrubs and Field Sparrows (?)

Hasegawa Gyokuhō, 19th century