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National Museum of Asian Art (Freer|Sackler)

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Two court ladies in patterned robes stand beside an attendant holding a vase of peonies on an ochre silk ground.

Court ladies and attendant

Ink line drawing of two standing women in layered kimono with elaborate hair ornaments, on aged paper.

Two women

Katsushika Hokusai

Misty watercolor of London Bridge over the Thames, with barges and a smoke plume under a hazy sky.

London Bridge

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Misty ink landscape of mountain cliffs, a waterfall, a stream, and small pavilions among pine trees.

Landscape: mountain gorge, mist, a brook, and buildings

Zhang Hong, 1600

Ink landscape handscroll on silk showing craggy mountains, cliffs, and trees, with a calligraphic title label beside it.

Landscape with figures, horses, and tigers

Round silk painting of a gnarled pine over a seated robed figure by water and distant hills.

Sitting under a pine

Traditionally attributed to Ma Yuan, 1400

Painted fan with a round-faced woman in a red kimono beside dandelions and white flowers on a gold background.

Uzume (Okame) and flowers

Signature of Ogata Kenzan, 1700

Painting of several carp swimming in dark water beside blue flowers and round lily pads.

Carp 鯉図

Kuroda Tōkō, 1800

Ink painting on silk of a seated man fishing beside a torrent, with pine trees and steep rocky cliffs behind.

Fishing by a mountain torrent

Zhu Huaijin, 1640

Hanging scroll of birds perched among red autumn leaves, thorny branches and green plants on a tan silk ground.

Autumn foliage and birds

Miniature painting of a turbaned man embracing a woman reclining on a white cushioned platform before a green hillside landsc

Sultan Murad and a Consort

Attributed here to Manohar, 1590

Watercolor of a Dutch river scene with a windmill, red rooftops, and a sailboat under a cloudy sky.

A Little Red Note-Dordrecht

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Hanging scroll of women in kimono visiting in an interior with a potted pine and a child attendant.

Two yujo making a New Year call upon two others

Kawamata Tsunemasa

Ink and color handscroll showing small figures in a riverside landscape, a house interior, and a haloed Jizo figure.

Miracles performed by the bodhisattva Jizo (copy of a section of a handscroll)

Kano Tan'yu, 1627

Ink landscape scroll showing herders driving water buffalo across a river past bridges, boats, and misty hills.

Bringing home the horses, taking the oxen to pasture

Ink drawing of a haloed luohan seated on a rock beside an attendant boy, with banana leaves and a pine branch.

Sixteen luohans

Ink drawing of seated robed figures in three panels, some holding fans, rendered in loose gray brushwork.

The Six Master Poets

Katsushika Hokusai

Ink handscroll of horsemen and a carriage procession with calligraphic inscriptions on a pale silk ground.

The captivity of Cai Wenji

Hanging scroll of a pavilion among pines on a rocky hill, with tall misty peaks and a small figure on a path below.

Viewing distant peaks from a mountain pavilion

Painting of a boy riding a water buffalo beside gnarled trees, reaching up toward a bird on a hazy hillside.

Boy on a water buffalo

Qin Shunyou, 1800

Hanging scroll painting of a snarling tiger crouched on rocky ground, baring its fangs against a pale background.

A crouching, snarling tiger

Gantoku Aoki, 1800

Hanging scroll of figures gathering clams on a shore, with a wooden boat, a distant conical mountain and calm sea.

Landscape: clam-gatherers on the shore

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of a woman in a black bamboo-patterned kimono standing on a wooden veranda beside a latticed screen.

Woman standing on a second-story balcony

Katsukawa Shunsui

Loose watercolor of a woman in a lilac gown reclining on a red sofa, holding a red fan, against a rose-toned drape.

Milly Finch

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Hanging scroll of misty mountains, pine trees and a winding stream, with two small figures and calligraphy inscriptions.

Flowing water, wind in the pines

Traditionally attributed to Juran

Chinese landscape painting of a mountain gorge with a pavilion, figures, twisted trees, a bridge and a distant pagoda.

Landscape: houses and a brook in a mountain gorge

Zhang Hong, 1600

Handscroll landscape of misty mountains, a river with boats, a pavilion on stilts, and pine and willow trees.

Snow clearing on mountains and rivers, after Wang Wei

Zhao Yuan, 1640

Hanging scroll of robed figures gathered before a tiled pavilion among pines, with celestial figures in the sky above.

The discourse of Vimalakirti and Manjusri

Zhou Fang, 1700

Ink landscape scroll of misty mountains, a waterfall, pine trees, a pavilion and a small boat on a river.

Autumn river in the rain and clouds

Hanging scroll of a courtesan in a green kimono with a checkered robe, an attendant girl, a white dog, and a full moon.

A Courtesan and her attendant

Utagawa Toyoharu