PaintingsJapanese

Book of Prints

Classification

Paintings

Culture

Japanese

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

13.5 x 20 cm (5 5/16 x 7 7/8 in.)

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Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, mid 16th century

Handscroll fragment mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and mica on paper

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Avalokitesvara (Kannon Bosatsu) from the Paradise of Amitâbha Buddha (Amida Nyorai); A painted copy of one detail from the Hōryū-ji Kondō murals

Shinzan, Taishō period, datable to 1923

Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

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Tale of the Rat (Nezumi zōshi emaki)

Tosa Mitsunobu, Muromachi period, circa 1469

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Illustrated Story of the Priest Saigyo (Saigyō Hōshi emaki), Vol. 4 (Winter)

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Handscroll: 4th of 4; ink and light color on paper with gold and silver

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Portrait of One of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets (Sanjurokkasen)

Unknown Artist, Late Edo period, 19th century

One of eighteen album leaves bound together in an (incomplete) album; ink, color and silver on paper

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Hawk Killing Goose

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Ink and light color on paper

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Annual Events in the Form of a Poetry Contest (Nenjū gyōji uta-awase) Vol. 1

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Gibbons Playing in an Old Tree along the Banks of a Stream

Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, circa 1630

Two-panel folding screen; ink on paper

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