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Six-panel gold screen showing elegant women and children in a palace garden with pavilions, pine and banana plants.

Chinese Women and Children in a Palace Garden

Kanō Eitoku, first half 17th century

Two panels of painted children in patterned robes playing with a toy horse, drum, dog, and umbrella on a gold background.

Chinese Children at Play

Ink landscape hanging scroll of misty snowy mountains, a pagoda, pine trees and village houses below.

Winter Landscape

Kano Tan'yu, 1662

Ink painting on a hanging scroll of a bearded elderly man in flowing robes, set within patterned silk brocade mounting.

Portrait of Emperor Shennong

Kano Tan'yu, 1665

Six-panel screen with birds perched on flowering branches, bamboo and willow against gold-leaf panels.

Birds and Flowers

Kano Tan'yu, 17th century

Painting of a seated man in a patterned brown robe and black court cap on a yellow ground, with a red seal.

Imaginary Portraits of Famous Poets

Kano Shōun, late 17th century

Seated man in a green floral robe and black court cap, smiling, on a warm ochre background with a red seal.

Immortal Poet

Kano Shōun, 17th century

Gouache portrait of a woman in blue robe facing right, with a large tumour covering her left eye and nose.

A woman, facing to right, with a large tumour covering her left eye. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1838

Hanging scroll of a mandarin duck swimming near blue and white irises, with two hidden ducks among the grasses.

Mandarin Ducks and Iris

Kanō Tsunenobu, 17th-18th century

Three hanging scrolls showing Daoist immortals with a crane, gibbons by a waterfall, and cranes beneath a pine tree.

Eight Daoist Immortals, Cranes, and Gibbons

Kanō Tanshin, late 17th-early 18th century

Hanging scroll of a green dove perched on a blossoming plum branch beside dark rocks, painted in ink and colour on silk.

Dove on Plum Tree

Kanō Tanshin, 17th-18th century

Gold-ground folding screen with heart-shaped scenes of birds, ducks, plum blossoms, peonies and chrysanthemums by a stream.

Birds and Flowers of Autumn and Winter

Kano Chikanobu, early 18th century

Hanging scroll of seated Jizō Bodhisattva on a lotus throne with staff, halo, and clouds, in a patterned brocade mount.

Jizō Bosatsu

Hanabusa Itchō, 1667-98

Hanging scroll of two quail on a grassy mound beside tall millet stalks with drooping seed heads, on a pale ground.

Quail and Millet

Kiyohara Yukinobu, late 17th century

Hanging scroll of red maple leaves over a waterfall with misty mountains in the background.

Waterfall and Maple Tree

Kano Seisen’in, 18th-19th century

Hanging scroll of a robed woman and attendant on a terrace beside a pine branch and rocks against a gold background.

Queen Mother of the West

Kano Osanobu, second quarter 19th century

Loose painting of an orchestra rehearsing in a circus hall with red-striped seating and spectators in bright costumes.

Rehearsal of the Pasdeloup Orchestra at the Cirque d'Hiver

John Singer Sargent, c. 1879

Ink painting of bamboo branches and leaves across a pale scroll, with vertical calligraphy and red seals below.

Ink bamboo

Tang Yin, early 16th century

Life Study (Study of an Egyptian Girl)

John Singer Sargent, 1891

Ink painting of a boat moored among reeds on misty water under a full moon, with calligraphy in the upper right.

Drunken fisherman by a reed bank

Tang Yin, early 16th century

Ostracon with a Drawing of a King

Egyptian, New Kingdom, mid-Dynasty 19-Dynasty 20, about 1213-1069 BCE

Hanging scroll of a seated woman in a blue kimono on a veranda beside cherry blossoms and a lattice window.

Courtesan Resting on the Veranda

Furuyama Moromasa, 18th century

Hanging scroll of three women in patterned kimono, one playing a shamisen, with a lacquer tray of writing items in front.

Three Beauties

Nishikawa Sukenobu, 18th century

Hanging scroll of two women in kimono walking by a willow tree and riverbank, with fireflies and reeds in a muted ochre setti

Two Girls Catching Fireflies

Kawamata Tsunemasa, first half of the 18th century

Hanging scroll of a standing woman in a black kimono with striped obi and poem inscriptions on her hem.

Standing Beauty

Kondo Katsunobu, 18th century

Fan-shaped ink landscape with mountains, sailboats on a lake, trees, a pavilion, and calligraphy with red seals.

View of Lake Tai

Wen Zhengming, dated 1543

Hanging scroll of a woman in a blue patterned kimono beside a gold screen, with a child in red peeking from behind it.

Mother and Child at Play

Isoda Koryusai, 18th century

Hanging scroll of a standing woman in a patterned kimono with two butterflies above her on an ochre background.

Beauty with Butterflies

Katsukawa Shunshō, 18th century

Hanging scroll of a courtesan in a black bamboo-patterned kimono standing beside a young attendant in a grey floral kimono.

Courtesan and Her Attendant

Katsukawa Shunshō, 18th century

Hanging scroll of a woman in a black kimono holding a pipe, gazing at a full moon beside a rooster and screen.

Beauty Looking at the Moon

Katsukawa Shuncho, 18th century