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Ink landscape hanging scroll with waterfall, cliffs, a lakeside pavilion, a small boat, and a column of calligraphy at top ri

Landscape with Pavilion

Kenkō Shōkei, 1478-80

Ink sketch of three deer on a hanging scroll above a painting of flowering bush clover with pink blossoms.

Preliminary Drawing of Three Deer Mounted on a Hanging-scroll Painting of Flowering Bush Clover

Ogata Kōrin, early 18th century (drawing); early 19th century (painting)

Hanging scroll of a seated judge at a desk with attendants, a bull, and small demons and souls below.

Ten Kings of Hell

Jin Chushi, before 1195

Ink and color landscape leaf with misty mountains, a cart with wheels, pack animals and travelers on a path below.

Landscapes

Ye Xin, dated 1652

Hanging scroll of two red-crowned cranes beside a pine branch and rock, with ink inscription at upper right.

Cranes, Pine Tree, and Lichen

Ren Bonian, dated 1885

Ink painting of bamboo on a fan-shaped leaf with calligraphy and red seals against a speckled gold background.

Bamboo in a spring thunderstorm

Tang Yin, 17th century

Hanging scroll of misty mountains, a river with a small boat, wooden houses and a bridge, with calligraphy at upper left.

Landscape

Feng Qiyong, dated 1733

Hanging scroll of ink bamboo leaves bending beside a pierced rock, with calligraphy and red seals above.

Windblown bamboo

Xia Chang, ca. 1460

Handscroll painting of robed deities riding an ox, horse, donkey and a winged bird across a pale paper ground.

Divinities of the Planets and Constellations

Qiu Ying, 16th century

Six-panel folding screen with mounted paintings, fans and calligraphy, including a maple branch, bird and koi fish.

Paintings and Calligraphy by Literati of Iga Ueno

Fifty-six artists, early 19th century

Ink and color landscape showing a thatched studio pavilion with two figures among trees and rocky outcrops, by Wen Zhengming.

The Cassia Grove Studio

Wen Zhengming, ca. 1532

Hanging scroll of a natural stone arch over a misty gorge, with pines, cliffs, and tiny travelers on the bridge.

Natural Rock Bridge

Lu Zhi, dated 1556

Hanging scroll of scholars on a stone bench under a tree examining a painting, with a pavilion, pines and bamboo.

Studying a painting

Zhang Lu, 16th century

Ink landscape hanging scroll with misty mountains, pine trees, a waterfall, and a pavilion beside a bridge.

Landscape

Wang Duo, dated 1649

One Hundred Horses

Giuseppe Castiglione, datable to 1723-25

Ink and color painting of a reclining drunken man with a sword beside a box, on a fan-shaped sheet in a brocade-bordered scro

Drunken Asaina

Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1810

Six-panel gold screen of ink landscape with a large pine, robed figures by a stone table, waterfall and distant mountains.

The Four Accomplishments

Kano Motonobu, mid-16th century

Album leaf with calligraphy on the left and an ink painting of a pine tree beside rocks on the right.

Landscapes, Figures, and Flowers

Chen Hongshou, dated 1618-22

Ink painting of a snarling striped tiger with a curled tail on a hanging scroll, with calligraphy and red seals.

Tiger

Meisō, early 18th century

Handscroll painting of a seated Buddha surrounded by bodhisattvas, celestial beings, and devotees on clouds, with calligraphy

“Universal Gateway,” Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra

Sugawara Mitsushige, dated 1257

Handscroll painting of foxes in court dress running on a lawn beside a veranda where a noble in blue robes sits.

Tale of a Strange Marriage (Konkai Zoshi)

Ukita Ikkei, ca. 1858

Hanging scroll of geese flying above and feeding by reeds at water's edge, in muted brown ink on silk.

Reeds and Geese

Tesshū Tokusai, 1343

Calligraphy poem in black ink over gold leaf with gray ink-painted cherry blossoms and branches below.

Poem by Kamo no Chōmei with Underpainting of Cherry Blossoms

Hon'ami Koetsu, 1606

Hanging scroll of a man and two women in patterned kimono beside a pine with a draped striped robe, with a distant shore.

Yukihira and Two Brinemaidens at Suma

Okumura Masanobu, 18th century

Hanging scroll of pine-covered rocky island, cranes, plum blossoms, sea turtle and red sun above misty mountains.

Mount Penglai with Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang

Kano Tansui Moritsune, 19th century

Ink landscape handscroll with misty rocky peaks, a pagoda, pine trees, and a winding path across hills.

Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers

Kanō Tsunenobu, late 17th-early 18th century

Eight-panel folding screen with reeds, rocks and misty hills in ink and wash, with calligraphy above.

Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers

Maruyama Ōkyo, late 18th century

Ink sketch of a seated man in a court robe and black hat, with handwritten Japanese poem text in columns above.

Competition Between Poets of Different Eras (Jidai fudō uta awase), depicting the poet Minamoto no Hitoshi

Fujiwara no Nobuzane, 13th century

Six-panel gold screen of women and children in kimono around a low table, with an ink landscape screen at left.

Parody of the Four Accomplishments

Shibata Zeshin, second half of the 19th century

Hanging scroll of a seated robed figure with a staff, flanked by green and red demons, before misty mountains and clouds.

Portrait of En no Gyōja

Jakusai, late 14th-15th century