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Related content for the world culture "Japan"
Related galleries
Rooms 92-94: Japan
Related highlight objects
A Battle between the Minamoto and Taira Clans, a 6-fold screen painting on paper
Angaja (Ingada), a hanging scroll painting
Articulated model carp
Articulated model crayfish, by Muneaki
Articulated model dragon, signed by Myochin Kiyoharu
Benzaiten, a hanging scroll painting
Bodhidharma (Daruma), a hanging scroll painting
Bodhisattva mask for Gyodo
Bronze 100 mon coin
Bronze amulet in the shape of a 100 mon coin
Bronze Daguan tongbao coin
Bronze mirror
Bronze mirror
Bronze mirror decorated with pines and cranes
Bronze mirror in the shape of a lotus
Cizhou ware ceramic pillow
Decorative bronze vase
Decorative horse-trapping
Ding ware vase
Dohoko (ritual spear blade)
Emperor Huizong (attributed to), Gardenia and Lichee with Birds, a handscroll painting
Figure of Aizen Myo-o
Fukukensaku Kannon with two Guardian Deities, a hanging scroll painting
Gan Ku, One Hundred Old Men, a pair of 6-fold screen paintings
Gilt bronze sword pommel
Gilt-copper decorative harness fitting
Go Shun, Hare with Pestle in the Full Moon, a woodblock print surimono
Haji ware standing bowl (tazza)
Hanging canopy (tengai)
Hanging scroll painting with a portrait of the monk Jion Daishi
Hanging scroll painting with a portrait of the young Prince Shotoku Taishi
Haniwa
Hashiguchi Goyo, Kamisuki (Combing the hair), a colour woodblock print
Heart Sutra of the Chuson-ji Temple, a handscroll painting on indigo-dyed paper
Hishikawa Moronobu, Craftsmen of Various Trades, a pair of handscroll paintings
Horse bit
Huangdao ware dish
Iron helmet
Iron model of a carp, made by Muneyori
Iron tsuba (sword guard)
Jimbaori (armour surcoat)
Jizhou tea bowl
Jun ware jar
Kakiemon ware porcelain bowl
Kano Kyuei, Scenes along the Length of the Sumida River, a set of 3 handscroll paintings
Kano Shunko, Procession of an Embassy from the Ryukyu Kingdom, a pair of handscroll paintings
Kano Yukinobu (attributed to), Bird and Flowers, a hanging scroll painting
Kantei, Landscapes, a pair of hanging scroll paintings
Katsushika Hokusai, 'Ejiri in Suruga Province' (Sunshu Ejiri), a colour woodblock print
Katsushika Hokusai, 'Rainstorm Beneath the Summit' (Sanka haku'u), a colour woodblock print
Katsushika Hokusai, Shichiri-ga-hama [Beach] in Suruga Province (Soshu Shichiri-ga-hama), a colour woodblock print
Kei Shokei (attributed to), Mountain landscape, a hanging scroll painting
Kiseto ware bowl
Kitagawa Utamaro, Ohisa of the Takashima tea-shop, a colour woodblock print
Kitagawa Utamaro, Parody of Narihira's Journey to the East, a triptych of colour woodblock prints
Lacquer document box
Lacquer inro
Lacquer pyx (sacrament box)
Lacquered vessel
Large neo-Jomon pot
Life of Shaka, a set of 3 handscroll paintings
Long-necked Sue jar
Mandala of the Kasuga Shrine Deity in the form of the bodhisattva Jizo, a hanging scroll painting
Mandala of the Kasuga shrine, a hanging scroll painting
Merman: part monkey, part fish
Minamoto no Yoritomo in court dress, a hanging scroll painting
Mori Yoshitoshi, Mie o kiru ('Posturize'), a stencil print
Moritoshi, Courtesan in a white kimono, a hanging scroll painting
Munakata Shiko, 'Kanaya' (Kanaya), a woodblock print
Negoro ware sake bottle
No mask of a young woman
Onchi Koshiro, The Sea, a triptych, 1 painted study and 2 colour woodblock prints
Painted wooden figure of the artist Sesshu Toyo, by Miwa
Pair of wooden bodhisattvas
Pipes and smoking sets
Poetry Contest of Forty-two Matches, a handscroll painting
Porcelain Ding ware bowl
Porcelain figure of a carouser astride a barrel
Porcelain phoenix-headed ewer
Pottery vessel
Pottery vessel
Qingbai wine ewer and basin
Round mirror box
Ru ware cup-stand
Sanage ware ceremonial jar
Saru no soshi ('Illustrated Tale of Monkeys'), a handscroll painting
Sesso Toyo, Haboku-style landscape, a hanging scroll painting
Set of armour
Shigaraki ware tea storage jar
Shotoku Taishi e-den ('Illustrated biography of Prince Shotoku Taishi'), fragments from a set of hanging
Spouted vessel
Statue of a retired townsman
Stemmed Haji ware bowl with handle
Stupas known as the Hyakuman To
Sue funerary jar
Sue ware coffin
Sue ware jar
Sugawara no Michizane in Chinese dress, a hanging scroll painting
Sugimura Jihei (attributed to), 'Tokiwa at Fushimi' (Fushimi Tokiwa), a woodblock print
Sumiyoshi Hirosada, Court amusements in spring and autumn, a pair of hanging scroll paintings
Suzuki Harunobu (attributed to), Parody of Monk Saigyo gazing at Mt Fuji, a colour woodblock print
Sword
Sword travelling-case with grapevine design
Tachi (long sword) blade
Tachi (long sword) blade
Takehisa Yumeji, 'Princess Tatsuta' (Tatsuta-hime), a colour woodblock print
The bodhisattva Jizo, a hanging scroll painting
The bodhisattva Kannon
The Death of the Buddha, a hanging scroll painting
The Dutch and Chinese Settlements at Nagasaki, a pair of handscroll paintings
The four seasons with the sun and moon, a pair of 6-fold screen paintings
The river festival at Tsushima shrine, a pair of 8-fold screen paintings
Toshusai Sharaku, The Actors Nakamura Wadaemon and Nakamura Konozo, a woodblock print
Trumpet-necked storage jar
Two dotaku (ritual bells)
Utagawa Hiroshige, 'Suido Bridge and Surugadai' (Suidobashi Surugadai), a colour woodblock print
Utagawa Hiroshige, 'Yui: Satta Peak' (Yui, Satta-mine), a colour woodblock print
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, The Wrestler Roshi Ensei, a colour woodblock print
Utagawa Toyoharu (attributed to), Courtesans of the Tamaya House, a screen painting
Wooden figure of Avalokiteshvara
Wooden figure of Fudo Myo-o
Wooden figure of Kichijoten
Wooden figure of the Buddha Amida
Wooden Gigaku mask
Wooden head of the Buddha Amida
Wooden shishi mask
Writing-box (suzuribako)
Xu You and Qao Fu, a 2-fold screen painting
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