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National Museum of Asian Art (Freer|Sackler)

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Hanging scroll with an ink painting of a small bird perched on a pale stump in the lower left, on empty paper.

A bird on a stump

Watercolor of a sandy shore with boats, a red sail, steamships with smoke and a hazy sky, by Whistler.

The Mouth of the River

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Ink and color painting of a mist-covered mountain village with pine trees, rooftops, a riverbank and a small boat.

Mountain village

Sketch of a courtesan

Katsushika Hokusai

Watercolor of a woman in a pink bodice reading a green book on a striped sofa in a muted interior.

Pink Note-The Novelette

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Hanging scroll of women in kimono airing books and clothes on a wooden veranda, with a child, a red mat of books, and a bird

Women Airing Books and Clothes

Katsukawa Shunshō

Hanging scroll of women and a man in kimono strolling beneath cherry blossoms toward a thatched building.

Landscape: parties of men and women looking at cherry blossoms

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of blue morning glories, grasses, and red lantern plants on a pale ground, with autumn foliage.

Flowers and grasses

Master of I-nen Seal

Two laughing robed figures on a rocky path, one holding a scroll and one a broom, under a gnarled pine branch.

The Chinese Taoist Immortals, Han-shan and Shih-te (Kanzan and Jittoku)

Hashimoto Gahō, 1880

Persian miniature with seated ruler, crowd of turbaned men, horseman and garden pavilion, framed by calligraphic text.

The Imam of Baghdad brought before the Caliph on a charge of heresy from the <em>Tarikh-i-Alfi</em>

Ink and watercolor still life of sparklers in a blue patterned vase, with a crab, clam shells and a bulb on tan paper.

Sparklers, crab and bulb

Katsushika Hokusai

Misty grey watercolor of sailing boats on calm water with faint distant shorelines under an overcast sky.

Grey and Silver-Liverpool

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Six-panel folding screen with floating painted fans, gold leaf sky, white lotus, green hill and pine branches on dark ground.

Ivy vines, bridges and floating fans 蔦の細道扇面流図屏風

Tawaraya Sotatsu

Seven women in patterned kimono walk and read scrolls among bamboo trees beside a misty stream.

Seven young women in a bamboo grove

Kawamata Tsunemasa

Horizontal scroll painting of green mountains, islands, pavilions and boats on water under a brown silk ground.

Ocean sky, rising sun

Six-panel gold screen with scattered painted fans showing birds, horsemen, flowers, pines and figures.

Screen with Scattered Fans 扇面散図屛風

Tawaraya Sotatsu

Two-panel screen: a red-robed priest beside a tree trunk, three women and a child walking under a pine on gold-flecked ground

A Shinto Priest, Three Women and a Child

Katsushika Hokusai, 1800

Hanging scroll of a reclining scholar in a pavilion beneath autumn trees, with an attendant, rocks, a moon and mountains.

Listening to the sound of autumn

Painting of a night deer hunt with torchbearers, archers and leaping deer, framed by a pink and gold floral border.

Deer-stalking at night

Gold leaf folding fan painted with white and blue balloon flowers in a woven basket, with black calligraphy at the right edge

Balloon Flowers in a Basket

Ogata Kenzan, 1700

Ink drawing of a dragon with clawed limbs and scaly tail emerging from grey clouds on pale paper.

Dragon emerging from clouds

Katsushika Hokusai

Two-panel gold screen with blossoming cherry trees, dark rocks and a small pavilion among trees.

Blossoming cherry trees

Handscroll painting of tigers, a leopard, a horse and a mythical lion beside willows, pines and rocky cliffs.

Bestiary of real and imaginary animals

Ink drawing of a long-haired hermit in flowing robes seated on a rock, turning to the left on beige paper.

Hermit resting on a rock

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of Zhong Kui and demons crossing a bridge beneath a cliff, with pine and plum trees.

Zhong Kui and demons crossing a bridge

Two-panel gold-ground screen with court ladies under trees and cherry trees in blossom beside a golden fence.

Court Ladies among cherry trees (left); Cherry blossoms, a high fence and retainers (right)

Tawaraya Sotatsu

Hanging scroll of a ferry boat with passengers crossing a misty river toward snow-capped Mount Fuji and a riverside village.

River landscape: ferry-boat and Mount Fuji

Katsushika Hokusai

Vertical scroll of white plum blossoms, red camellias and perched birds with a pheasant on a rock against dark teal.

Birds and flowers

Traditionally attributed to Huang Jucai, 1700

Ink drawing of an ox and cart with robed men beside a thatched shelter, with calligraphy colophon on the right.

Leaving the calf behind

Zhou Fang, 1500

Painting of a white peacock beside pink and white peonies and a red bud on a gold ground, with brocade mounting.

White peacock and peonies

Kanō Tsunenobu