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Saigo Takamori in the retreat from Shiroyama castle, Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

A Philosopher Watching a Pair of Butterflies, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Japan; Illustrated book; Illustrated Books

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Performance of Hanasaka Jiji, by Toshi, 1889, Meiji 21, from the Hood Museum of Art - PR.995.23.42abc.

Tatekawa River Lumberyard at Honjo (Honjo Tatekawa), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Japan; Illustrated book; Illustrated Books

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

Japan; Illustrated book; Illustrated Books

Hell Courtesan

This frightening print illustrates the story of Kohada Koheiji, a Kabuki actor who was drowned by his wife’s lover but later came back to haunt the couple. The tale was popular in the 18th century, eventually inspiring a novel and several Kabuki plays. Here, the skeletal ghost of Kohada Koheiji pulls down the mosquito net and eerily peers at the sleeping couple in their bed.

Kichik Beg Wounded during Babur's Attack on Qalat, from a copy of the Baburnama (Book of Babur)

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)"

Ōtsu-e of a Youth Holding Irises (Yarō)

Suido Bridge and Surugadai, from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

An Artisan’s Shop, from the album The Mist of Sandara (Sandara kasumi)

Ejiri in Suruga Province (Sunshu Ejiri), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Fujimigahara in Owari Province (Bishu Fujimigahara), from the series "Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Grafmonument met alliantiewapen en vier kwartierwapens

Whaling off the Coast of the Goto Islands (Goto kujira tsuki), from the series "One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (Chie no umi)"

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Sazai Hall at the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats (Gohyakurakanji Sazaido), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Fishing by Torch in Kai Province (Koshu hiburi) from the series "One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (Chie no umi)"

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

Armorer (Yoroi takumi), from the illustrated book "Picture Book of the Amusements of the East (Ehon Azuma asobi)"

Vasant Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

The Four Seasons

暮れて月いとおもしろきに、宮の亮、女房にあひて、とりわきたるよろこびも啓せさせむとにやあらむ、妻戸のわたりも御湯殿のけはひに濡れ、人の音もせざりければ、この渡殿の東のつまなる宮の内侍の局に立ち寄りて、「ここにや」と案内したまふ。宰相は中の間に寄りて、まだ鎖さぬ格子の上押し上げて、「おはすや」などあれど、いらへもせぬに、な大夫の、「ここにや」とのたまふにさへ、聞きしのばむもことごとしきやうなれば、はかなきいらへなどす。いと思ふことなげなる御けしきどもなり。

Cuckoo Flying under a Full Moon

Exhibit in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon - Eugene, Oregon, USA.

Armor (Gusoku)

Monkey Hanging on to a Branch

Blooming Plum Tree, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Maharana Amar Singh II with Ladies of the Zenana outside the Picture Hall at Rajnagar

Viewing Sunset over the Ryogoku Bridge from the Onmaya Embankment (Onmayagashi yori Ryogokubashi sekiyo o miru), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Tile Panel

Beneath Mannen Bridge in Fukagawa (Fukagawa Mannenbashi shita) from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Mandala of the Three Shrines at Kumano

Fragment van een muurschildering

Poppies, from an untitled series of flowers

This folio from Walters manuscript W.580 is the left side of an illuminated double-page frontispiece of geometric design in gold, red, blue, and green, with a marginal rosette at the left.

A man stands and a woman sits near a herd of seven cows under a light-drenched sky in this horizontal landscape painting. The herd gathers on a grassy rise just beyond some large boulders and twiggy branches. The cows are caramel or copper brown and ivory white. They stand and lie, legs tucked demurely beneath their hulking bodies, facing different directions, their short horns curling like parentheses against the sky. The man stands on our side of the herd with his back to us to the left of center. He holds a tall shepherd’s staff in one hand as he hunches slightly and points with the other, to our right. He wears a high-crowned, wide-brimmed black hat, a crimson-red jacket, black trousers, and black knee-high boots. A knapsack hangs across one shoulder and rests behind his left hip. The woman sits on the far side of the herd so we see her under the man’s raised arm. She looks at him, her face peachy and round under a wide-brimmed straw-colored hat. She wears a white shirt under a robin’s egg-blue dress, and also holds a tall staff upright with both hands. Two more pale-skinned people sit on the ground or on a donkey in the near distance to our right, near the right edge of the canvas. Both wear hats and earth-toned clothing in black, gray, and blue. The donkey stands facing us, its face low, and a pair of baskets are slung across its back. The people and cattle cast long shadows from the setting sun, out of view to our left. The sunset ignites the undersides of the towering, slate-gray clouds with peach and gold against the ice-blue sky. A body of water stretches from beyond the low hill to a distant shore, where stone ruins are outlined on the horizon, which comes about a third of the way up the composition. A flock of six birds and another pair dot the sky.

Maharana Bhim Singh in Procession

A Young Prince on Horseback

Hunting Scene

Peonies

Nakamura Fukusuke I as Kumagai Jirō Naozane on a Folding Fan

On the Sands

Thanka with Buddha

Portrait of Prince Sur Singh Rathor of Bikaner (1594–1631)

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

Flowers and Birds in a Spring Landscape

Fishing Boats at Choshi in Shimosa (Soshu Choshi) from the series "One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (Chie no umi)"

Famous Views of Ōmi

Buddhist Deities

The Greedy Dog

Krishna's Fifth and Sixth Avatars, page from a copy of the Gitagovinda of Jayaveda

Palm Tree, Nassau

Zal Climbing to Rudaba, page from a copy of the Shahnama of Firdausi

Pleasure Boat on the Sumida River

Japan; Illustrated book; Illustrated Books

"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Gibbons in a Landscape

This is a painting of a pastoral scene near the water with a ship and buildings in the background. The artwork is in the style of American folk art, presented in an oval frame. The image depicts a serene landscape by the water, with figures engaged in activities such as gathering flowers in the center. The foliage is in shades of green and brown, spreading above under a lightly clouded, blue sky. On the left side, a ship is anchored near the shore, with buildings visible in the distance. The water has soft waves, contrasting with the rocky ground in the foreground. The pastel colors create a calm and reflective mood, evoking tranquility and connection with nature.

Grapevine in the Wind

Viewing the Seashore at the Eguchi Inn

Girl Arranging Flowers

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

Amitabha Triad, Tokyo National Museum

The Assembly of Tejaprabha Buddha

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

Khambavati Ragini: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Hydrangea and Swallow, from an untitled series of large flowers

This painting shows a village nestled in hills and trees with a cloudy blue sky at the top. Closest to us are simple white buildings, some with white spires and others with red and brown roofs, surrounded by tall trees. In the distance there are hills, smaller trees, and sailboats on a body of water on the right. The artwork has visible brushstrokes, and the buildings are simple and flat. The color palette is earthy, with soft greens, warm tans, and light whites and yellows.

Walters manuscript W.620 has a brown leather blind-stamped binding with a flap. The binding is decorated with a central oval medallion and pendants. This binding is not original to the manuscript.

Charles and Lavinia Stratton

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

Ruler Entertained by Dancers in a Paradise Garden

Mishima Pass in Kai Province (Koshu Mishimagoe), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

A Procession Scene with Musicians, from a copy of the Padshanama

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

The painting depicts a wintry scene from an elevated point of view, showing people skating and playing games on a frozen river. On the left, leafless trees line the frozen bank. On the right, there are brown buildings with snow on their roofs and smoke rising from their chimneys. A woman stands on one of the porches, holding a small child. On the snowy ground outside the buildings, a sled is being pulled by two horses. In the center of the painting is the wide frozen river. The people on it wear colorful clothes in shades of red, yellow, green, blue, and brown. Some of them slip and fall on the ice, and others lace skates on their feet. Four men in the center hold long curved sticks and look towards a small round ball on the surface of the ice. In the distance, the horizon is marked by blue-tinged mountains under a cloudy gray sky.

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

The Beach at Sumiyoshi from the Tales of Ise

Cotton Roses and Sparrow, from an untitled series of Large Flowers

This drawing, Walters manuscript leaf W.749, was executed in Safavid Iran, most probably in the late 10th century AH/AD 16th, in Qazvin or Isfahan. Above, a farmer plows; below, a seated young man watches a produce seller weigh his purchase. On the rocks in the center foreground is inscribed the name of one of the most famous painters in Iran in the 11th century AH/AD 17th, Riza 'Abbasi (active 1001-1044 AH/AD 1591-1592 to 1634). As the handwriting does not match that of the artist, an admirer of Riza's work seems to have attributed the drawing to him. The execution and the bucolic subject matter of this drawing relate closely to the oeuvre of the Persian artist Muhammadi Haravi (active late 10th century AH/AD 16th), who worked in Qazvin. It is possible that this composition was conceived as a manuscript page.

The Flood of Noah (Genesis 7:11-24)

Chinese Bird on Snow-Laden Branch

Manjushri

慈眼大師像

Spearing Eels

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

Taking on Wet Provisions (Schooner Marked Newport, K. W.)

Cranes on snow-covered pine

Ushibori in Hitachi Province (Joshu Ushibori), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Sloop, Nassau

Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain