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National Museum of Asian Art (Freer|Sackler)

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Round silk painting of pavilions and pine trees on a mountainside with a stream and bridge below in muted ink tones.

Landscape: pavilions on a mountain side; a stream below

Handscroll painting of fish swimming among water weeds on a tan silk ground, with red seals and inscription at right.

Fish and water weeds

Emperor Xuande Zhu Zhanji

Hanging scroll of a woman in a flowered white kimono and red skirt holding a decorated fan, by Hokusai.

Six Immortals of Poetry: Ono no Komachi

Katsushika Hokusai, 1800

Ink landscape on silk showing a bamboo grove, rocky hills and misty peaks in muted brown tones.

Landscapes with bamboo

Ink painting of a seated luohan beneath pine branches, with a tortoise offering a scroll at lower left.

Luohan in a tree and tortoise presenting a scroll

Sketch of two carp swimming through diagonal currents, with detailed scales and fins drawn in ink on tan paper.

Swimming carp

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of a seated red-robed luohan with a halo, on a green cushion beside sandals and small pink flowers.

Seated Luohan

Traditionally attributed to Zhao Mengfu

Hanging scroll of two women beside a pine tree and rocky shore, one in green robe, one kneeling in red kimono.

Matsukaze and Murasame

Kawamata Tsunemasa

Watercolor of a boatman poling a raft with a thatched hut past reeds, birds, and a pink-tinted river landscape.

Landscape: boatman poling his raft

Katsushika Hokusai

Watercolor of two women in a studio interior, one seated by a red draped chaise and one at a small table in a pink dress.

Note in Pink and Purple-The Studio

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Two doves perched on a branch with white blossoms and red leaves, painted in ink and colour on a muted background.

Two doves on a flowering branch

Bian Luan, 1500

Ink sketch of an elderly bald man in a loose robe leaning on a walking stick, with red underdrawing and paper overlays.

Sketch for a woodblock print

Katsushika Hokusai

Painting of hunters chasing tigers through a dense green forest with a seated group of musicians on a ledge.

Maharao Umed Singh hunting tigers

Hans Raj Joshi, 1780

Seated bearded sage in white robe and turban on yellow floral carpet against orange background, holding a small object.

The sage-physician Dhanvantari, folio from the “Sixth” <em>Bhagavata Purana</em> series, also known as the “small” Gu…

Manaku, 1730

Ink landscape hanging scroll with misty mountains, a river, pine trees and small rooftop buildings, with calligraphy at upper

Landscape: mountains, a river, and buildings

Hanging scroll of two women under an umbrella walking through a snowstorm, with snow-covered ground in the foreground.

Two girls under umbrella in snowstorm

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1800

Ink handscroll of robed luohan figures with a tiger and deer among rocks, pines and waves.

Luohans and animals crossing the sea

Hanging scroll of a standing oiran courtesan holding a fan beside a plum tree, in a patterned kimono.

An Oiran standing by a plum tree

Kuniyuki Utagawa

Ink and wash drawing of a seated youth in a striped turban reading a book, with a sword beside him, in a gilded frame.

Seated youth

Abu'l Hasan, 1590

Painting of a standing Buddha on a lotus within a golden halo, with cranes, pine trees, and clouds in the background.

Amitabha welcoming a soul to paradise

Ink painting of a hibiscus branch with a large open flower, buds and grey lobed leaves, with calligraphic inscriptions.

Hibiscus

Wang Yuan, 1300

Fan-shaped painting of a bald man leaning back beside rising smoke, a blossoming branch and a shovel.

Buddhist allegory of a priest burning cherry branches

Katsushika Hokusai

Ink painting of bamboo stalks on rocky ground with calligraphy columns and red seals on a handscroll.

The Pure Recluse of Bamboo Creek

Painting of a flowering hibiscus branch with pink and white blossoms, green leaves and buds on an ochre background.

A branch of flowering hibiscus

Kano Tan'yu, 1667

Green turtle with a red ribbon trailing from its head, swimming through curling pink and gray water ripples.

Turtle resting on a scroll

Katsushika Hokusai

Ink landscape with gnarled pine trees, a waterfall over rocks, perched birds and misty mountains.

Landscape

Kanō Shōei, 1590

Album leaf of a peddler at a stall with a woman and two children, beside a page of calligraphy on ochre silk.

A soft-drink peddler and customers 明貨郎圖冊頁

Jiang Yin, 1700

Hanging scroll of a woman in a gold-dotted white robe walking beside a girl in a pink kimono on plain silk.

Yujo and a girl

Hishikawa Morofusa

Ink painting on silk of water buffaloes and a herder beneath drooping willows, with misty mountains and flying birds.

Water-buffaloes and attendants under willow-trees

Traditionally attributed to Zhu Xi, 1640

Hanging scroll of a seated woman in a patterned kimono tying a floral bundle beside a screen, with a small fish sketch on the

New Year custom: wish for a New Year's auspicious dream

Katsushika Hokusai, 1800