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National Museum of Asian Art (Freer|Sackler)

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Hanging scroll of two women on a wooden walkway by water, one holding a paper lantern, in muted ochre tones.

Courtesan and Maid

Utagawa Toyokuni

Hanging scroll showing a mounted archer on rippling waves below, and women seated on a veranda with bamboo and a screen above

Parody of the tale of Nasu no Yoichi

Kawamata Tsuneyuki

Ink and blue wash painting of a tortoise moving across a swirl of pale blue water on beige paper.

A Tortoise

Katsushika Hokusai

Handscroll painting of a seated robed figure with attendants beneath pine trees, beside a pavilion and rocky hillside.

Scenes from the Lives of Famous Men (part 1)

Handscroll painting of a flowering eggplant plant with purple fruits, green leaves, and Chinese calligraphy with red seals.

Eggplant

Traditionally attributed to Qian Xuan, 1400

Ink sketch of three figures in robes reading, with pages of text on the floor and a bent-over reader at lower right.

Three figures reading

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of a multi-roofed palace among rocky blue-green mountains and pine trees, with tiny figures and a boat below.

Palace in the mountains

Traditionally attributed to Zhao Boju, 1700

Hanging scroll of three women in robes beside rocks and a tall plant with red flower spikes on a gold ground.

Promenading ladies

Zhou Fang, 1300

Ink line drawing of a mandarin duck swimming on rippling water on a brown silk handscroll.

Two ducks in the water

Emperor Huizong )

Ink painting of a plum branch with gray-wash blossoms on tan paper, with a calligraphic inscription and red seals.

A plum branch

Hanging scroll of two women on a veranda in kimono, with a calm sea and hills beyond the railing.

Two girls on a balcony overlooking the sea

Kitao Shigemasa

Hanging scroll painting of a pumpkin vine with green leaves, a yellow blossom, a bud, and a small horse fly on ochre ground.

Pumpkin Vine and Horse Fly

Katsushika Hokusai

Six-panel gold-ground screen showing palace halls, horsemen, a carriage procession, and courtiers among clouds and a river.

Scenes from the life of the Ming Huang Emperor and Yang Guifei (one of a pair with F1901.21)

Two-panel gold screen of crowds under pines and cherry trees beside temples, a pagoda, and boats on a river.

Autumn at Asakusa; Viewing cherry blossoms at Ueno Park

Hishikawa Moronobu

Ink and colour drawing of a kneeling woman with a hairpin in her topknot, beside a red vessel, in pale kimono.

Seated figure of a woman

Katsushika Hokusai

Ink and light color handscroll showing a seated bearded scholar on a red stool beside a standing attendant, with red seals.

Xiao Yi obtaining the Lanting Manuscript by trickery

Traditionally attributed to Qian Xuan, 1500

Muted tonal seascape with pale surf at a low horizon, wide sand foreground and small dark figures on the beach.

The Sea and Sand

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Hanging scroll of three robed horsemen on white horses riding past willow trees and a rock on a brown plain.

Three horsemen riding under willows

Man in pale robe leading a large dark bear on a rope across brown silk, with a second figure at left.

Presenting tribute animals

Two geese flying above a misty beach with rolling waves, painted in muted ink on a folding screen.

Geese Over a Beach

Ink painting of a boatman poling a small boat through rapids below a tall cliff with overhanging trees.

Shooting rapids under high cliffs

Traditionally attributed to Wu Zhen, 1300

Ink line drawing of a kneeling woman in kimono playing a long-necked samisen, head bowed, on pale paper.

Maiden playing a samisen

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of a tall stalk of white hollyhocks with broad green leaves and buds on a pale background.

White hollyhocks

Six-panel ink landscape screen with misty hills, a distant pagoda, trees, a small temple and a sailboat.

Landscape: hills and buildings

Ink sketch of a seated woman playing a samisen beside a figure looking through a lattice shoji screen.

Two sketches: lady playing samisen and lady with back to observer looks between open shoji

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of misty mountains with a gorge, houses and a stream in the valley, and a pavilion among trees.

Mountain gorge: houses and a stream in the valley

Handscroll painting of butterflies, moths and a praying mantis among flowers and leaves on a brown silk ground.

Flowers, butterflies and other insects

Hanging scroll showing a white egret perched on a dark ink-washed post against a pale background with gold wave borders.

Egret on a Bridge Post

Katsushika Hokusai, 1800

Pale watercolor of a wide sandy beach with small figures walking near the sea under a grey sky.

Opal Beach

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Hanging scroll of rocks, a twisted pine, bare trees, a waterfall and two hawks perched in misty mountains.

Rocks, trees, brook, and hawks

Li Di, 1400