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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,430 works

Ink painting of a crow perched on a rock with reeds at right, mounted as a hanging scroll with gold brocade borders.

Crow on a Rock

Sesson Shūkei, probably 19th century

Ink painting hanging scroll of a crested bird perched on a bare tree trunk, with sparse grasses below, in gold brocade mounti

Bird on Tree (Haha-chō)

Pair of hanging scrolls with ink paintings of geese and reeds on pale silk, mounted in blue patterned brocade.

Geese and Reeds

Kano Sosen Narinobu, mid- to late 19th century

Ink painting of a robed rider on a horse in clouds above a rocky outcrop and tree, with diagonal rain streaks.

Rain God Riding in Clouds on a Horse

Ink painting of the smiling deity Hotei with a sack and staff beneath a full moon, mounted as a hanging scroll.

Hotei

Kano Tan'yu, probably 17th or 18th century

Ink painting of a dark blackbird perched on a pale rock beside bamboo leaves and grasses.

Blackbird on Wave-Swept Rock

Painting of bonsai and potted plants displayed on a dark rocky stand, with decorative ceramic pots and a red seal at lower ri

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Bonsai

Shibata Zeshin, 1882

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

Painting of golden rice stacks on poles with dragonflies in flight, a bare branch with red leaves, and hanging wooden drying

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Stack of Rice and Dragonflies

Shibata Zeshin, 1882

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

Ink and color painting of a duck on a snowy rock beside a drooping willow, with a pale moon behind.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Bird and Willow in Snow

Shibata Zeshin, 1882

Painting of a straw snow shelter wrapped around a tree, with a sparrow by a stream, reeds and green shoots in the foreground.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Snow Shelter for a Tree with Sparrow

Shibata Zeshin, 1882

Still life of a brown teapot, bamboo tea caddy with calligraphy label, gourd tray and green sprig on pale paper.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Sencha Tea Set

Shibata Zeshin, 1882

Painting of a decorated drum float with dragons and a seated figure beside a pine tree on a gold background.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Drum for Gagaku Dance

Shibata Zeshin, 1882

White peony in bloom beside a dark rock and peony buds on a gold-leaf background, painted in lacquer style.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Peonies

Shibata Zeshin, 1882

Album leaf with a gold border showing many butterflies in ink and color on a pale ground, signed in the lower left.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Butterflies

Shibata Zeshin, dated 1881

Hanging scroll with a large red rising sun over a pale ground, soft horizontal red bands, and a signature with red seal.

Rising Sun

Shibata Zeshin, second half of the 19th century

Still life of a tea kettle on a brazier beside a dark tea bowl and red lacquer stand, against a gold leaf background.

Tea Ceremony Apparatus

Gold-ground album leaf of three men with topknots looking at a framed ink landscape with rocks and a bridge.

Three Men Looking at Framed Lacquer Drawing

Album leaf with striped spinning tops, a whip, and a red figure on a pedestal against a grey textured background.

Tops

Watercolor album leaf of tiered rice stacks hanging from a branch beside slender trees with red berries and a small bird, fra

Rice Stacks and Trees

Album leaf showing a fox at left beside swirling pale flames and grey smoke rising from sticks, on a gold-bordered mount.

Fox by Mystic Fire

Brown ink painting of a crow perched on a gnarled bare tree branch, with a red seal mark on the right.

Crow on Tree

Hanging scroll of two macaques beneath a snow-laden pine bough on a pale ground.

Monkeys

Mori Yūsen, early 19th century

Ink painting of a swallow perched on a slender stem beside reeds and broad leaves, on a pale background, in a brocade-mounted

Swallow

Kanō Tsunenobu

Hanging scroll of two cranes beside a rock, one looking up toward a pine branch in ink on a tan ground.

Two Birds

Ganjō Tengaku, dated 1869

Loose ink sketches of several seated and crouching robed figures in East Asian dress on pale paper.

Sketches of East Asian Legendary Figures

Kawanabe Kyōsai, late 19th century

Hanging scroll of dark ink rock cliffs with a pale waterfall and white spray over rocks at the bottom, in blue brocade mounti

Rocks and Waterfall

Hanging scroll of a dark carp swimming up a misty waterfall in soft gray ink on a tan silk ground.

Carp Ascending Waterfall

Shibata Zeshin, 19th century

Hanging scroll of a courtesan raising a blossoming branch, accompanied by a smaller attendant in a red kimono.

Courtesan and Attendant

Chobunsai Eishi, 18th-19th century