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National Museum of Asian Art (Freer|Sackler)

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Hanging scroll of white rats and a grey mouse climbing a tall stack of woven straw rice bales.

Rats and rice bales

Katsushika Hokusai

Painting of a hunting party with horsemen, archers and a carriage crossing a green mountain valley with pine trees.

An imperial hunt

Ink landscape on silk with tall cliffs, pine trees, a small seated figure on a rock, and misty open space in the center.

Saluting the sunrise over the sea

Ink line drawing of Fugen Bosatsu seated on a white elephant, with a lotus and halo behind the figure.

Fugen Bosatsu seated on an elephant

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of a woman in a green kimono holding a small cage on a veranda beside a thatched house under a full moon.

A Young Woman with a Cage of Fireflies

Shiba Kôkan, 1810

Painted fan leaf with a pale peony blossom, bud and green leaves, with a small inscription and red seal.

Peony

Suzuki Kiitsu, 1800

Green rock island rising from wavy water under a large red sun, with small swallows flying across the brown sky.

Island, sun, and flying swallows

Painting of palace women and children in a garden courtyard with tiled pavilions, blossoming trees, and lattice screens.

Palace women and children celebrating the New Year

Six-panel screen with painted fans of flowers, birds and landscapes scattered over dark ground and gold leaf.

Fans and clouds over rocks and water

Brown watercolor sketch of workmen on a roof and ladders beside smoke and fire, with a figure carrying buckets at right.

A Fire at Pomfret

James McNeill Whistler, 1840

Ink line drawing of several horses in varied poses, including grazing and sketch studies on tan paper.

Horses

Katsushika Hokusai

Watercolor of three women on a rocky shore watching waves and distant sailboats under a heavy cloudy sky.

Sun and Clouds

Winslow Homer, 1880

Loose watercolor of a woman seated at a tea table by a curtained window in an amber-toned room.

Violet and Amber-Tea

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Ink wash painting of a deer seen from behind, head turned, antlers raised, on pale paper.

Deer

Katsushika Hokusai

Ink painting on silk of two robed figures, one bearded, the other holding a small qilin in his cloak.

Confucius and Buddha cradling a qilin

Ink landscape of a cliff with pines above rapids, with misty mountains receding into the distance on the right.

Rapids in a mountain valley

Painting of a white and grey crane with red legs and bill, preening beneath a raised wing on a pale grassy ground.

Crane

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of a young woman in a pine-patterned kimono reading a letter, with gold hair ornament and red seals.

Young woman reading a letter

Ishikawa Toyonobu

Hanging scroll of a gnarled pine, craggy mountains, and three scholars in a pavilion beside a wooden bridge.

Three scholars in a pavilion composing poetry

Ink sketch of a dancing man in loose robes beside a seated old woman holding a broom on pale paper.

Old woman seated on bench before whom a man with fan dances

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of seated white-robed Guanyin in a rock cave with red flowers and green foliage behind, on brown silk.

White-robed Guanyin

Wu Bin, 1600

Ink painting of geese on a misty river beside bare trees and a rocky bank at dawn.

Geese at dawn on a misty river

Hanging scroll of a smiling woodcutter with an axe and firewood bundle, misty rocky mountains behind him.

Woodcutter

Katsushika Hokusai

Painting of a river landscape with mountains, pine trees, pavilions with curved roofs, boats and a bridge in muted brown tone

River landscape: mountains, pine-trees, and buildings

Chinese painting of a frog, insects, bamboo shoots and flowers beside a rocky tree trunk, with calligraphy above and below.

Bamboo, frog, and insects

Traditionally attributed to Cui Bai, 1640

Horizontal scroll of many labeled warrior figures in armor and robes, with combat scenes and a red demon-like figure.

Suikoden

Katsushika Hokusai

Ink painting on silk of two hawks perched on a gnarled, barren bough against a brown background.

Two hawks on a barren bough

Six-panel gold screen with palace pavilions, court ladies, a seated emperor, pine trees and mounted riders among clouds.

Scenes from the life of the Ming Huang Emperor and Yang Guifei (one of a pair with F1901.20)

Kano Mitsunobu, 1590

Ink sketch of five robed musicians in varied poses, several playing drums, drawn in bold angular black lines on paper.

Five musicians playing drums

Katsushika Hokusai

Watercolor nocturne of a city building at dusk with dark figures walking across a pale reflective square.

Nocturne: Amsterdam in Winter

James McNeill Whistler, 1880