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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

32,885 works

One Hundred Horses

Giuseppe Castiglione, datable to 1723-25

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

Album leaf with calligraphy on the left and an ink painting of a pine tree beside rocks on the right.

Landscapes, Figures, and Flowers

Chen Hongshou, dated 1618-22

Ink painting of a snarling striped tiger with a curled tail on a hanging scroll, with calligraphy and red seals.

Tiger

Meisō, early 18th century

Handscroll painting of a seated Buddha surrounded by bodhisattvas, celestial beings, and devotees on clouds, with calligraphy

“Universal Gateway,” Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra

Sugawara Mitsushige, dated 1257

Handscroll painting of foxes in court dress running on a lawn beside a veranda where a noble in blue robes sits.

Tale of a Strange Marriage (Konkai Zoshi)

Ukita Ikkei, ca. 1858

Hanging scroll of geese flying above and feeding by reeds at water's edge, in muted brown ink on silk.

Reeds and Geese

Tesshū Tokusai, 1343

Calligraphy poem in black ink over gold leaf with gray ink-painted cherry blossoms and branches below.

Poem by Kamo no Chōmei with Underpainting of Cherry Blossoms

Hon'ami Koetsu, 1606

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

Hanging scroll of pine-covered rocky island, cranes, plum blossoms, sea turtle and red sun above misty mountains.

Mount Penglai with Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang

Kano Tansui Moritsune, 19th century

Ink landscape handscroll with misty rocky peaks, a pagoda, pine trees, and a winding path across hills.

Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers

Kanō Tsunenobu, late 17th-early 18th century

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

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

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

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

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

Painting of autumn ivy with red and green leaves hanging from thin stems, with calligraphy in black ink beside it.

Autumn Ivy

Ogata Kenzan, after 1732

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

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

Pair of hanging scrolls in grey ink showing birds on branches above peonies and shrubs, with mounted brocade borders.

Birds and Flowers

Kano Yukinobu, mid-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

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

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