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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,125 works

Handscroll painting of riders performing acrobatic horsemanship on galloping horses with red and green saddle trappings.

Horsemanship demonstration

Zhao Yong, 19th century

Ink landscape of layered rocky mountains with a small pagoda, pavilions, bare trees, and a river, on aged silk.

Snow-covered Mountains

Xu Daoning, ca. 1000

Ink painting of cabbage leaves and a grasshopper on a stalk, with calligraphy and red seals on grey paper.

Cabbage and Insects

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

The Hundred Flowers

Ink landscape handscroll showing mountains, pine and bare trees, a river, and a small hut beside rocky cliffs.

River Landscape in Autumn

Luo Mu, dated 1661

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

Flowers

Ink handscroll of scholars gathered at a wooden pavilion beside bamboo, pine trees and a winding stream.

Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion

Qian Gong, dated 1607

Ink drawing of two deer on a rocky ledge under a pine branch, with vertical calligraphy on the facing page.

Album of miscellaneous paintings

Ink landscape with willow trees, misty mountains and a small boat by a riverbank, beside a page of calligraphy with red seals

Eight album leaves from a miniature album

Prince Cheng Yongxing

Ink landscape with twisted pine trees, a small figure on a path, and rounded rock formations fading into distant hills.

Landscape

Zhang Cining, 1807

Ink landscape with four twisted pine trees, rocky cliffs, misty mountains, and red seals on a pale background.

Landscape with Four Pines

Ink landscape of misty cliffs, pine trees and a small hut, with calligraphy and red seals above.

Landscapes with Poems

Gong Xian, 1688

Ink landscape hanging scroll with misty mountains, pine trees, a small hut, and calligraphy with red seals at upper left.

Autumn Mountains

Hanging scroll of a robed courtier and attendants with a horse on a winding mountain path, with poem calligraphy on gold.

“Mount Utsu” (Utsu no yama), from The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)

Tawaraya Sotatsu, ca. 1634

Two-panel screen with ink hawk on branch and robed sage with staff under pine, on gold leaf ground.

Daoist Sage and Hawk

Soga Nichokuan, mid-17th century

Six-panel folding screen of misty ink landscape with pines, a waterfall, a pagoda and a small boat on water.

Landscapes of the Four Seasons

Kano Tan'yu, 1630s

Ink and light color drawing of Jizō Bosatsu seated on a cloud playing a flute, with a pale halo behind him.

Jizō Bosatsu Playing a Flute

Kano Tan'yu, mid-17th century

Seated bodhisattva holding a vajra staff on a lotus throne, with a smaller vajra and inscriptions below, in ink and color.

Daishōjin Bosatsu, from “Album of Buddhist Deities from the Diamond World and Womb World Mandalas”

Takuma Tametō, 12th century

Hanging scroll of a small wagtail perched on a rock beside a bare branch, with ink calligraphy in the upper right.

Wagtail on a Rock

Taikyo Genju, mid-14th century

Ink painting on a hanging scroll of orchids, bamboo and rocks, with calligraphy and a red seal at upper left.

Orchids, Bamboo, Briars, and Rocks

Tesshū Tokusai, mid-14th century

Ink painting of a robed scholar riding a donkey past misty mountains and pine trees, in a blue brocade hanging scroll.

Su Shi Riding a Donkey

Bokudō Sojun, early 15th century

Ink painting on a fan-shaped gold ground showing a herd boy riding an ox past a mountain and pine trees.

Herd Boy with Ox

Kano Masanobu, late 15th century

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 a misty ink landscape with a rock outcrop, a tree on a bank, and a figure on a small bridge.

Splashed-Ink Landscape

Bokushō Shūshō, early 16th century

Ink landscape of rocky cliffs topped with pavilions and pines, with small boats on misty water below.

Landscape with Rocky Precipice

Sesson Shūkei, 16th century

Ink landscape hanging scroll of a musician playing qin beneath a pine on a cliff while two listeners sit nearby.

Bo Ya Plays the Qin as Zhong Ziqi Listens

Kano Motonobu, 1530s

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

Ink painting of a robed man on a donkey with a staff and gourd, before a pale mountain, with calligraphy above.

Zheng Huangniu and Yushanzhu

Kanō Naizen, early 17th century

Six-panel ink landscape screen with rocky peaks, pine trees, a lakeside village, boats, and flying birds.

Landscape of the Four Seasons

Unkoku Tōgan, late 16th-early 17th century

Six-panel gold screen with clouds, boats, dancers in costume, blossoming trees and palace pavilions with robed figures.

“Butterflies” (Kochō), from the Tale of Genji

Tosa Mitsuyoshi, late 16th-early 17th century