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National Museum of Asian Art (Freer|Sackler)

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Two-panel screen with four painted fans of landscapes, a boat, a mountain, and a figure on gold ground.

Four fan paintings mounted on a screen; "Frog on Lotus Leaf", "Scholar in a House", "Landscape", and "Boat and Rock"

Katsushika Hokusai, 1800

Watercolor of a canal at night with lit building windows reflected in the water and faint figures on the near bank.

Grand Canal, Amsterdam; Nocturne

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Five elderly robed sages stand with a crane, a deer, and a turtle on a golden silk ground.

The five ancients

Li Congxun, 1530

Hanging scroll of a seated court woman in a flowing robe beside willow trees and a distant mountain, muted ochre background.

Yang Kuei-fei

Chobunsai Eishi

Hanging scroll of birds perched among gnarled branches, grapevines and small flowers on a brown silk ground.

Birds, grapevines, and flowers

Wen Riguan, 1640

Horizontal scroll painting of a mounted procession with a covered carriage, banners and spears crossing a rocky landscape wit

Cai Wenji returning to China

Chen Juzhong, 1700

Hanging scroll of a seated robed figure riding a white elephant beneath pine trees, with attendants and clouds in muted color

Sakyamuni on an elephant

Ink sketch of hairy legendary figures, one sweeping water with a broom, others floating above rippling waves on tan paper.

Legendary beings

Katsushika Hokusai

Gold-ground screen with white peonies, green leaves, and drooping willow branches above a blue stream.

Peonies and willows

Hanging scroll of a seated Buddha flanked by two bodhisattvas on lion and elephant, with guardian figures below.

Buddhist triad of Shakyamuni, Manjushri, and Samantabhadra

Kose Arishige （）, 1500

Ink drawing of a bearded man in a patterned robe and tall dark cap, reclining on the ground.

Seated man with nobleman's cap

Katsushika Hokusai

Handscroll painting of a shirtless porter carrying baskets on a pole beside a woman in a green robe holding a plank.

Ge Hong moving house

Watercolor sketch of a room with a fireplace, framed paintings on the walls, and two small figures in muted grey and blue ton

Moreby Hall

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Circular painting of a robed man riding a spotted deer with a boy beside a tree and a lakeside landscape.

Immortal, deer, and boy

Hanging scroll of Manjushri, an elderly bodhisattva with a white beard, seated on a lion above a swirling cloud.

Manjushri seated on a lion

Handscroll painting of a red-robed figure with clasped hands beside a pine, with attendants and a sword on the right.

Emperor Shi Le reverencing a buddhist monk

Hanging scroll of a courtesan in a crane-patterned blue kimono gazing into a hand mirror beside a lacquer stand, with floral

A courtesan looking into a hand mirror

Katsukawa Shunshō

Horizontal scroll painting of mounted riders with red banners crossing a plain among green hills and pine groves.

Treaty at the Bian Bridge 《汴橋會盟圖》

Hanging scroll of a bald fisherman with a rod and basket before a pale cone-shaped Mount Fuji.

The fisherman Hakuryo and Mount Fuji

Hanging scroll of a tall mountain over a river, with a boat, a riverside pavilion, trees, and cranes in flight.

Returning home by boat in the autumn mountains

Full-length portrait of a bearded man in a black suit with a gray coat over his arm, against a dark background.

Arrangement in Black: Portrait of F. R. Leyland

James McNeill Whistler, 1870

Ink painting of a white dragon among dark clouds above stylized waves, on a six-panel gold-bordered folding screen.

Dragons and Clouds 雲龍図屏風（左隻）

Tawaraya Sotatsu

Courtiers seated on a veranda under a blossoming tree, a woman behind a green blind, and a small dog beneath a full moon.

Album of twenty-four paintings

Night seascape in blue tones with sailboats on dark water and two figures on a pale beach under a hazy sky.

Nocturne: Blue and Silver--Bognor

James McNeill Whistler, 1870

Hanging scroll of a red thunder god with flowing drapery amid dark swirling ink clouds on a pale background.

Thunder god

Katsushika Hokusai

Two archers with bows join hands before a robed sage beside a leafy tree against a bright yellow background.

Rama and Lakshman with the sage Vishvamitra, from a <em>Ramayana</em>

the Master of Style II of the ‘Shangri’ Ramayana, 1690

Ink painting of a snipe flying over a misty marsh with reeds, with calligraphy and red seals on silk.

Snipe Over a Marsh from the <em>Three Dusks</em>

Kano Tan'yu, 1665

Woman holding a fan

Katsushika Hokusai, 1810

Hanging scroll of a peacock with blue crest and long eyed tail feathers rising over a grassy mound on gold silk.

Peacock

Mori Sosen, 1786

Oil portrait of a man with curly dark hair and a mustache against a dark background, in an ornate gold frame.

Portrait of Whistler

Henri Fantin-Latour, 1860