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Six-panel gold screen of costumed dancers, pine tree, blossoms, and a blue river with an island.

Butterflies Dancing Episode [left of the pair Episodes from the "Butterflies" Chapter of the Tale of Genji]

Six-panel screen with gold clouds showing two ornate boats on blue water, a pine tree, blossoms, and white cranes.

Boating Episode [right of the pair Episodes from the "Butterflies" Chapter of the Tale of Genji]

Two women in kimono with white head coverings adjust a red sash beneath a blossoming tree beside a stream, on a hanging scrol

Two Oharame on the Bank of a Stream

Ink painting of plum blossom branches over a rock with narcissus and bamboo, with calligraphy and red seals at left.

Plum Blossoms, Bamboo, and Narcissus

Painting of frogs staged as a sumo match, with one leaping frog at center and others crouched in grass under falling rain.

Frogs in Sumo Match

Watercolor landscape of a green mountain, red autumn trees, a small pavilion, and calligraphy in the upper right.

Landscape

Wang Xuehao, 1812

Portrait of Joseph Wiggins

Benjamin Greenleaf, 1820

Hanging scroll of a wild-haired man with a sword gazing up at a small rider flying on a wispy cloud trail.

Chinese Immortals [one of a pair]

Hara Zaichū, 1804

Ink painting of a leaning tree over a veranda with a kneeling woman and a standing man holding a sword.

Michiyuki

Hosokawa Rinkoku

Hanging scroll of a misty mountain stream with steam rising from a hot spring, small buildings below, and calligraphy at uppe

Hot Baths at Shibu

Hosokawa Rinkoku

Ink landscape of rocky peaks and a waterfall, with two climbing figures on a crag and a calligraphy inscription at left.

Togakushi Mountain Range

Hosokawa Rinkoku

Section of a handscroll with cursive black ink calligraphy in vertical columns and two red seal stamps beside the signature.

Landscape scroll

Hosokawa Rinkoku

Hanging scroll of a pale rock, a small hut, and bamboo, with brush calligraphy and red seals at upper left.

Night Stories from a Window Viewing Bamboo

Hosokawa Rinkoku

Hanging scroll of misty mountains with pines, figures in red robes with banners, deer and boar, and calligraphy at upper left

Watching a Hunt in Sendai

Hosokawa Rinkoku

Ink landscape hanging scroll with rocks, a leaning tree, a small boat on water, and calligraphy with a red seal.

Landscape

Hosokawa Rinkoku

Painting of yellow chrysanthemums in a grey vase on a red stand, with brush calligraphy and a red seal beside it.

Yellow Chrysanthemums

Hosokawa Rinkoku

Hanging scroll of a woman in blue kimono riding an ox led by a piping herder, with calligraphy above.

Ox herder as Mitate of Kengyu_

Six-panel gold screen of robed scholars gathered by a river beside a stilted pavilion among rocky mountains.

The Lanting Gathering

Hanging scroll painting of a stag with branching antlers looking upward, rendered in grey ink wash on cream paper.

Stag

Mori Tetsuzan, 1815

Ink painting of a hanging grape vine with leaves, tendrils and grape clusters on a vertical scroll.

A Grape Vine

Ink painting of bamboo leaves and a rock, with calligraphy and red seals at upper left on pale paper.

Bamboo, Rock, and Poem

Hanging scroll of a plum branch with white blossoms and snow-covered limbs against a muted empty background.

Plum Blossoms in Snow

Painting of five figures pulling a wooden boat up a grassy slope, with a blue mountain and two cranes in a tan sky.

Five Figures Pulling a Boat

Hanging scroll of autumn flowers with a red dragonfly, grasshopper, and ladybug among leafy vines on a pale ground.

Autumn Flowers [left of a pair]

Hanging scroll of autumn flowers, vines, a red dragonfly and insects on a beige background.

Autumn Flowers [right of a pair]

Circular ink painting of robed scholars examining an unrolled scroll while attendants handle rolled paintings beside them.

Scholars Examining Paintings

Su Liupeng, 1884

Hanging scroll of misty rocky cliffs with waterfalls cascading through a gorge, painted in ink and soft color washes.

Rocks and Stream

Painted portrait of a young child in a pink dress holding a striped rod, with a red rose and dark tree behind.

Portrait of a girl

William Matthew Prior

Ink painting of sixteen Buddhist arhats with a red-robed monk riding a sea dragon through swirling waves and clouds.

Sixteen Rakan

Hine Taizan, 1862

Ink landscape scroll with willow trees, a traveler with baskets on a path, small boats on misty water, and distant mountains.

Boating on the Spring River