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National Museum of Asian Art (Freer|Sackler)

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Boy seated on a willow branch gazing at Mount Fuji above misty terraced fields, with a woven basket hanging below.

Boy Viewing Mount Fuji

Katsushika Hokusai

Women in kimono on a seaside veranda with lanterns, a folding screen and sailing boats on the sea beyond.

Moonlight Revelry at Dozo Sagami

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1800

A forlorn lover, fragment from a Rasamanjari

the workshop of Golu, son of Devidasa, 1700

Ink wash painting of misty hills, small pine trees, and a white bird in flight, with calligraphy in the upper right.

Evergreens on distant hills

Kano Tan'yu, 1665

Painting of Shiva and Parvati beside a willow tree, with a reclining couple on a tiger skin against a red background.

Shiva and Parvati on a tiger skin: Anakūl Nayaka folio from a <em>Rasamanjari</em>

Golu, son of Devidasa, 1700

Miniature painting of Vishnu seated on a green couch while Lakshmi massages his foot and an attendant fans him.

Lakshmi massaging the foot of Vishnu

Composition attributed to Nainsukh, 1770

Painting of two toads on a brown silk ground, one climbing and one crouched, with red seals and a Chinese title label.

A pair of three-legged toads

Li Di, 1640

Circular painting of two robed figures with staves walking by a river under cliffs and an autumn tree.

Walking with staves in the autumn hills

Painting of a woven basket filled with peonies, hibiscus, magnolia and red and orange flowers on a brown ground.

Basket of flowers

Handscroll of misty mountains and a waterfall, with robed women musicians processing through clouds toward a pavilion.

Realm of the immortals

Six-panel screen of rural figures at a thatched farmhouse with Mount Fuji and gold clouds behind.

Country Scenes and Mount Fuji; one of a pair with F1902.49

Katsushika Hokusai

Painting of a black-headed songbird perched on a branch of yellow loquat fruit and green leaves on brown silk.

A branch of loquats and a bird

Six-panel screen of a gold-flecked rural scene with villagers working by a river, a pine tree, and a boat.

Country Scenes and Mount Fuji; one of a pair with F1902.48

Katsushika Hokusai

Ink landscape with a tall mountain, misty water, a thatched pavilion by the shore, and trees, with calligraphy at upper left.

Spring mists over a riverside pavilion

Traditionally attributed to Ni Zan

Ink painting of a weeping willow and pine beside misty grey mountains, with a large empty area of paper on the right.

River landscape

Hanging scroll of two robed monks meeting by a river under a twisted pine, with bamboo and misty mountains behind.

Encounter of Yun-men Wen-yen and Fa-yen Wen-i

Kenkō Shōkei, 1520

Faceted white crackle-glazed sake bottle with loose blue-green painted pine trees and landscape marks on a dark background.

Sake bottle

Decoration attributed to Kano Tangen

Ink landscape scroll with misty mountains, a gnarled pine, wooden pavilions by water, and a distant bridge.

Landscape: mountains, stream and houses

Gakuō Zōkyū, 1500

Ink portrait on silk of a stern, bald, bearded monk in flowing robes, traditionally identified as Bodhidharma.

Portrait of Bodhidharma 達摩圖像

Traditionally attributed to Wuzhun Shifan

Ink painting of Fugen Bodhisattva seated with a scroll beside a white elephant under a gnarled tree.

Fugen

Takuma Eiga, 1300

Hanging scroll painting of the Buddhist deity Fudo Myo'o with flaming halo, holding a sword and rope, standing on a pedestal.

Buddhist deity: Fudo Myo 'o

Full-length painting of a woman in a grey and pink kimono with a red sash, holding a fan before a floral folding screen.

The Princess from the Land of Porcelain (<em>La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine</em>)

James McNeill Whistler, 1860

Six-panel ink landscape screen with rocky peaks, pine trees, boats on water, and misty distant mountains.

Landscape

Sesshū Tōyō, 1500

Ink landscape on a folding fan with mountains, pine trees, rocks, a river and a moon, plus a red seal at right.

Landscape: Mountains, river, buildings and moon

Sesson Shūkei, 1500

Gold leaf folding screen with poem cards, chrysanthemums, leafy branches and a brown striped curtain with a gold tassel.

Folding screens mounted with poems from the anthology, Shin kokinshu 新古今集和歌色紙貼付屏風（一双、画像：左隻のみ）

Hanging scroll of a man in a dark hat carrying a laughing child on his back beside a small dog, with bamboo at right.

Two Entertainers Strolling on the New Year

Katsushika Hokusai, 1800

Two-panel screen with a bird on plum branch, a man painting a torii gate, a dragon in clouds, and scholars.

Various Scenes

Katsushika Hokusai, 1810

Mughal-style painting of a seated ruler under a canopy receiving two standing figures, with attendants and a green garden beh

The poet Sundar Das before Emperor Shah Jahan, folio from a <em>Sundar Shringar</em>

Painting of an army of crowned warriors on horseback advancing toward two deities seated on a mountain shrine.

Jarasandha’s army advances toward Krishna and Balarama, folio from a <em>Mahabharata</em>

Purkhu, 1820

Five-headed deity seated on a lotus holding weapons while a woman in red kneels in devotion before him on an orange backgroun

Sadashiva worshipped by Parvati