Japanese Art

Portraits of courtesans, actors, and brides sit alongside studies of birds, bamboo, and horses, each rendered with fine outlines and quiet, posed stillness. Figures on verandas smoke pipes or tune a shamisen, while birds perch among pine and peacocks in soft, muted color. Together they reflect Japanese Art's attention to everyday grace and the natural world.

Three Actors in their Roles, from the series Stories of the Heroes of the Suikoden (Tosei Suikoden) by Utagawa Kunisada
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A traditional East Asian painting depicting several goats and sheep grazing by a river beneath tall cliffs and willow trees in muted earth tones.
Shen Nanpin
Album of Birds and Animals (Sheep and Goats)
ink and color on silk

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Mandarin ducks swim among pink lotus flowers and green leaves on water in this detailed ink and color painting on silk.
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Album of Birds and Animals (Mandarin Ducks and Lotus Flowers)
ink and color on silk

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Two cats beneath gnarled trees with pink flowers on a beige silk scroll, rendered in ink and color.
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Album of Birds and Animals (Cats)
ink and color on silk

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Two white cranes with black markings stand among gnarled pine trees in a misty landscape rendered in sepia and brown tones.
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Album of Birds and Animals (Cranes)
ink and color on silk

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A classical ink and watercolor painting depicts three spotted deer standing on rocky terrain beside a waterfall and gnarled tree.
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Album of Birds and Animals (Deer)
ink and color on silk

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White storks perch on a gnarled log surrounded by frost-covered willow and dried vegetation in muted earth tones.
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Album of Birds and Animals (Wintry Storks)
ink and color on silk

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A detailed ink and watercolor painting depicts two mythical qilin creatures on a misty mountainside with a waterfall and vegetation.
Shen Nanpin
Album of Birds and Animals (Qilin)
ink and color on silk

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Two peacocks on a rocky hillside beneath gnarled trees in a traditional East Asian ink painting with muted brown and blue tones.
Shen Nanpin
Album of Birds and Animals (Peacocks)
ink and color on silk

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Two spotted deer stand beneath gnarled trees with white flowers on a tan-colored silk scroll painting.
Shen Nanpin
A Birthday Painting, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
1756 · Ink and color on silk

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A peacock with elaborate tail feathers stands beneath a gnarled pine tree with bamboo, rendered in ink and color on aged paper.
Shen Nanpin
Bamboo, Pine and Peacocks

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A horse and monkey rest beneath a willow tree in a landscape rendered in brown, tan, and cream tones on silk.
Shen Nanpin
Album of Birds and Animals (Horses)
ink and color on silk

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A Japanese woodblock print depicting a tall waterfall cascading down a cliff with figures below, rendered in blue, gold, green, and cream tones.
Katsushika Hokusai
Ono Waterfall, the Kiso Highway
Color woodblock print

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Japanese woodblock print depicting workers in rice paddies with mountains, featuring figures, buildings, and calligraphy in greens, blues, and earth tones.
Katsushika Hokusai
The Poem of Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason
1839 · Woodblock print (oban yoko-e format); ink and color on paper

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A large wave with curled crest dominates the foreground, with Mount Fuji visible in the distance, rendered in dark blue, light blue, and cream tones.
Katsushika Hokusai
The Great Wave of Kanagawa, from the series '36 Views of Mt. Fuji' ('Fugaku sanjuokkei') pub. by Nishimura Eijudo
woodblock print

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Japanese woodblock print depicting figures crossing an arched bridge over a river with autumn maple leaves in greens, blues, and earth tones.
Katsushika Hokusai
Autumn Maple Leaves on the Tsutaya River
Woodblock print

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Japanese woodblock print depicting Mount Fuji in the distance with a beached boat and figures on a sandy shore in foreground.
Katsushika Hokusai
Bushu Tamagawa (The Tama River in Musashi province)
1823 · color woodblock print

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Hokusai's vertical composition stacks five women in colorful kimonos against a cream background, featuring blues, reds, and earth tones.
Katsushika Hokusai
Five Beautiful Women
1804 · hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Japanese woodblock print depicting a hillside landscape with blooming cherry trees, figures in traditional dress, buildings, water, and Mount Fuji in the distance.
Katsushika Hokusai
Goten-yama Hill, at Shinagawa on the Tokaido
1830 · Color woodblock print

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A bullfinch perches among drooping branches of white and pink blossoms against a deep blue background with Japanese calligraphy.
Katsushika Hokusai
Bullfinch and Weeping Cherry
1833 · color woodblock print

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Two figures fishing from rocky cliffs overlook turbulent waves and distant Mount Fuji under blue and beige skies.
Katsushika Hokusai
Kajikazawa in Kai Province
1830 · Color woodblock print

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A yellow canary flies among orange peonies with green leaves on aged paper with Japanese calligraphy.
Katsushika Hokusai
Peony and Canary

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A large brown lobster with long antennae dominates the composition, accompanied by smaller shrimp rendered in pale gray and brown tones against a light blue background.
Andō Hiroshige
Shrimp and lobster
1835 · Woodcut

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Five river trout arranged diagonally across blue water with Japanese calligraphy and red seals on a light blue background.
Andō Hiroshige
River Trout
Color woodblock print

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Figures cross a wooden bridge during heavy rain, with mountains and water visible below in muted greens, yellows, and blues.
Utagawa Hiroshige
Sudden Shower over Shin-ohashi Bridge and Atake”, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
woodblock print, 1857, Oban

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