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National Museum of Asian Art (Freer|Sackler)

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Hanging scroll of a standing courtesan in a black blossom-patterned kimono with a red sash, head bowed.

Courtesan

Katsushika Hokusai

Horizontal scroll with small figures in kimono along wooden shops, pine trees, and a pagoda in soft gray washes.

Pastimes and occupations of the twelve months

Hanabusa Itchō

Painting of chrysanthemums, red and pink flowers, grasshoppers and rocks by a stream on a golden silk ground.

Flowers, plants, and insects

Ink line drawing of a standing man in layered Japanese robes and trousers, with a topknot, on tan textured paper.

Standing figure of a man

Katsushika Hokusai

Grey ink painting of a bearded man in a tall hat leading a saddled horse past a gnarled tree and rocks.

A horse and rider

Ink painting of three robed figures in a landscape: a seated elder with a staff, a bowing scholar, and a standing attendant.

Zhongli Quan seeking the Dao

Sun Zhiwei, 1500

Ink and color sketch of a seated man in a green robe painting characters on a pink panel beside an inkstone.

The Calligrapher

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of pink peonies and a white lily among dark ink-toned leaves on pale paper.

Peonies and lilies 芍薬と百合図

Tawaraya Sotatsu

Hanging scroll of a woman in a patterned kimono walking with a child beneath blossoming cherry branches, with calligraphy abo

A courtesan and her attendant under a cherry tree

Tawaraya Sori III

Hanging scroll of two women in an interior, one kneeling and writing, with a blossoming tree screen and calligraphy above.

Interior: a courtesan writing; another looking on

Katsushika Hokusai

Handscroll painting of a robed rider on an ox, a child beside it, and a man leading a donkey with a staff.

Returning home after harvest

Hand scroll of palace ladies in robes; one plays a zither on a rock beside a flowering tree, others attend nearby.

Palace ladies tuning a zither (qin)

Traditionally attributed to Zhou Fang, 1640

The Lion Dance

Katsushika Hokusai

Ink painting on a folding screen of monkeys in a snowy pine tree, with a white bird on rocks below.

Monkeys and trees on a river bank

Album leaf of two seated men under a tree beside a waterfall and rocks, with a calligraphy page opposite.

Landscape: two men sitting under a tree beside a waterfall

Two-panel gold screen painting of lilies, hollyhocks, white poppies and wisteria blooming across a golden background.

Flowers 花木図屏風

Watanabe Shikō, 1700

Circular ink painting on silk of a bare tree, rocky shore, small boat, distant hills and birds over water.

Wild geese descending to a sandbar

Hanging scroll of a reclining woman in an interior with a gold screen, two attendants on a veranda, and blossoming branches.

Beauty reclining as visitors approach

Handscroll painting of robed figures at a banquet table and a musician beside a railing, tree, and ducks in a garden.

A garden party

Loose watercolor sketch of a figure resting in bed beside a mantelpiece with fans, a top hat, and drapery.

Resting in Bed

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Painting of a mounted huntsman in green robe on a white horse, leading a grey dog past rocks and a pine branch.

Mounted huntsman leading a dog

Hanging scroll of three goats beneath a flowering plum tree with willow fronds on a dark brown ground.

Three goats under a flowering plum tree

Hanging scroll of a seated courtly man in blue and red robes with a fan, beside folded paper, on a pale ground.

Six Immortals of Poetry: Ariwara no Narihira

Katsushika Hokusai, 1800

Ink painting on silk of a twisted pine, a pavilion with tiled roof, bamboo, and misty mountains beneath red seals.

Pavilion on the hillside

Traditionally attributed to Ma Yuan, 1400

Hanging scroll of a red-combed rooster beside tall ink bamboo stalks and small pale blossoms on a worn, pale ground.

A cock and bamboos

Emperor Huizong )

Round silk painting of pine trees, red pavilions on rocks, a small boat on water, and distant misty mountains.

Pure sanctuary with pine grown stairs

Yan Ciping, 1590

Ink scroll painting of bare old trees, a small rock islet, and misty distant mountains over still water.

Old trees and cold crows, in the style of Zhao Danian

Hanging scroll showing a man in green carrying a woman on his back beside a willow tree and misty hills.

Ariwara Narihira carrying his lover

Miyagawa Chôshun

Six-panel gold-ground screen with wild geese, some flying and some resting among soft ink clouds.

Wild geese

Tawaraya Sotatsu

Hanging scroll of a boy in blue kimono fishing from a willow branch, with swallows flying nearby.

Boy fishing from the limb of a tree

Katsushika Hokusai