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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,986 works

Eight-panel folding screen with reeds, rocks and misty hills in ink and wash, with calligraphy above.

Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers

Maruyama Ōkyo, late 18th 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

Ink landscape handscroll showing a river, pine trees on rocky banks, distant hills and a village, with red seals.

River Landscape

Xiang Yuanbian, dated 1578

Vertical painted panel of butterflies fluttering over lavender and pink peonies with green leaves on a tan ground.

Butterflies and Peonies

Nam Gye-u, mid- to late19th century

Six-panel screen of a misty lake with mountains, temple pavilions, willows, pines, a bridge and small boats in ink.

View of West Lake

Kusumi Morikage, mid- to late 17th 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

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

Six-panel gold screen with dark green bamboo stalks, leaves, young shoots and low grasses on a golden background.

Bamboo in the Four Seasons

Tosa Mitsunobu, late 15th-early 16th century

Six-panel gold folding screen with ink-painted lions with curling manes and tails among white clouds.

Bugaku Dances (front); Chinese Lions (reverse)

Hanabusa Itchō, early 18th century

Six-panel screen with two hawks on pine branches and rock, and white camellias blooming at lower left.

Hawks with Pine Trees and Camellias; Small Birds with Willows and Camellias

Mitani Tōshuku, early 17th 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

Hanging scroll of misty mountains, pine trees, and two travelers on a path near wooden pavilions.

Visiting a Friend in Autumn

Okada Beisanjin, ca. 1810s

Six-panel screen of misty mountains, bare trees and a pavilion over gold leaf, with a pale moon at left.

Scenes from the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers

Unkoku Tōeki, 17th century

Six-panel screen with birds, lilies, peonies and plum blossoms in oval panels on gold leaf, with calligraphy above.

Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months with Chinese Calligraphy

Kano School, 16th century; sheets of poetry, one dated 1553

Ink handscroll of misty jagged mountains above a river with trees along the bank and red seals at top.

Cloudy Mountains

Fang Congyi, ca. 1360-70

Ink painting of a twisted pine tree rising from rocks, with needles spreading across the upper scroll and red seals.

Dragon pine

Wu Boli, late 14th-early 15th century

Ink landscape handscroll with three seated scholars among pine and willow trees beside distant misty hills.

Drinking and Composing Poetry

Yao Shou, dated 1485

Handscroll detail of green leaves and pink and lavender blossoms with black calligraphy and red seals.

Flowers of the Four Seasons

Ink landscape hanging scroll of misty snowy mountains, a pagoda, pine trees and village houses below.

Winter Landscape

Kano Tan'yu, 1662

Hanging scroll of a green dove perched on a blossoming plum branch beside dark rocks, painted in ink and colour on silk.

Dove on Plum Tree

Kanō Tanshin, 17th-18th century

Gold-ground folding screen with heart-shaped scenes of birds, ducks, plum blossoms, peonies and chrysanthemums by a stream.

Birds and Flowers of Autumn and Winter

Kano Chikanobu, early 18th century

Ink painting on a hanging scroll of a bearded elderly man in flowing robes, set within patterned silk brocade mounting.

Portrait of Emperor Shennong

Kano Tan'yu, 1665

Hanging scroll of two quail on a grassy mound beside tall millet stalks with drooping seed heads, on a pale ground.

Quail and Millet

Kiyohara Yukinobu, late 17th century

Fan-shaped ink landscape with mountains, sailboats on a lake, trees, a pavilion, and calligraphy with red seals.

View of Lake Tai

Wen Zhengming, dated 1543

Painting of nude figures, satyrs and a centaur returning from a boar hunt beside a lake under a stormy sky.

The Return from the Hunt

Piero di Cosimo, 1495

Hanging scroll of a woman in a black kimono holding a pipe, gazing at a full moon beside a rooster and screen.

Beauty Looking at the Moon

Katsukawa Shuncho, 18th century

Ink landscape on gold fan leaf: misty mountains, trees, a small house, two figures on a bridge, calligraphy at upper right.

Landscape with Figure

Painting of nude hunters and centaurs chasing animals through a dark forest at dusk, with smoke rising in the distance.

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo, 1495

Hanging scroll of a seated couple on a mat beneath flowering vines on a trellis, with a red fan and sake bottle.

Enjoying the Evening Cool under a Gourd Trellis

Utagawa Toyohiro, early 19th century

Ink drawing triptych of two sumo wrestlers grappling in a bout, with seated officials in robes at the left and right edges.

Sumo Wrestling

Utagawa Kuniteru, 19th century