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A Battle between the Minamoto and Taira Clans, a 6-fold screen painting on paper
A Christian figure, ink and colours on silk (fragment)
A Rajput king worshipping Krishna, a painting on paper
Agate belt set
Aiseki, Hermitage by the Shaxi River, a hanging scroll painting
Angaja (Ingada), a hanging scroll painting
Archaistic jade gui (ritual sceptre)
Archaistic jade ring
Arita ware porcelain dish
Arita ware tankard
Armatura
Articulated model carp
Articulated model crayfish, by Muneaki
Articulated model dragon, signed by Myochin Kiyoharu
Avalokiteshvara as Guide of Souls, ink and colours on silk
Avalokiteshvara as Saviour from Perils, ink and colours on silk
Avalokiteshvara, a colour woodblock print
Avalokiteshvara, a hanging scroll painting
Avalokiteshvara, ink and colours on a hemp cloth banner
Avalokiteshvara, ink and colours on a paper banner
Avalokiteshvara, ink and colours on silk
Azuma Toyo, Plum tree, a 4-fold screen painting
Balinese sacred cloth
Battles of Ichinotani and Yashima, a pair of 6-fold screen paintings
Belt hook
Benzaiten, a hanging scroll painting
Bhairavi Ragini from the Manley Ragamala, an album painting in gouache on paper
Bimaran Reliquary
Black lacquer writing-box
Blue-and-white brushrest
Blue-and-white porcelain fish dish
Blue-and-white porcelain jug
Bodhidharma (Daruma), a hanging scroll painting
Bodhisattva as Guide of Souls, ink and colours on a silk banner
Bodhisattva mask for Gyodo
Bodhisattva with a glass beaker, ink and colours on a silk banner
Bodhisattva with a glass bowl, ink and colours on a silk banner
Bodhisattva with censer, ink and colours on a silk banner
Box with equipment for an incense game
Brass Tantric yantra
Brick with Sanskrit inscription
Bronze 4-armed male figure standing under a tree
Bronze bell from a Buddhist temple
Bronze bell from a Shinto shrine
Bronze bell with bull finial
Bronze belt buckle in the shape of a horse
Bronze belt hook
Bronze bull head
Bronze ding (ritual food vessel)
Bronze dui inlaid with gold and silver
Bronze figure of a Bon deity, perhaps ghsa-lha'od-dkar
Bronze figure of a tirthankara
Bronze figure of Buddha Vairocana
Bronze figure of Maitreya
Bronze figure of Milarepa
Bronze figure of Nataraja
Bronze figure of the Buddha Amitabha
Bronze figure of the Buddha Shakyamuni
Bronze figure of the seated Buddha
Bronze figure of the walking Buddha
Bronze figures of Shiva and Parvati
Bronze flower vase
Bronze gui (ritual food vessel)
Bronze hu (ritual wine vessels)
Bronze image of Ganesha on his rat vehicle
Bronze incense burner
Bronze incense burner
Bronze kundika (water sprinkler)
Bronze leaping feline
Bronze lotus mandala, with silver and copper inlay
Bronze mirror
Bronze mirror
Bronze mirror decorated with pines and cranes
Bronze mirror decorated with the figure of a boatman
Bronze mirror in the shape of a lotus
Bronze mirror with a handle
Bronze ritual tripod and ewer
Bronze statue of the Buddha
Bronze statues of Vishnu with his consorts Bhu and Shri
Bronze tortoise, by Murata Seimin
Bronze you inlaid with gold and silver
Bronze zun (ritual wine vessel)
Bugaku mask of Korobase
Bugaku mask of Ryo-o, the 'Dragon King'
Bulbous Karatsu ware jar
Bulbous porcelain jar
Carved and painted figure of Garuda riding Vishnu
Carved wooden plaque
Celadon tea bowl
Celadon tea bowl
Celadon wine bottle
Ceramic Liubo players
Ceramic tomb model
Chaekkori, an 8-fold screen painting
Chaekkori, paravento a 8 pannelli dipinti
Chen Shun, Zhoujintang ('Hall of Daytime Elegance'), followed by the Zhoujintang ji ('Record of
Chenghua '100 children' bowl
Chinese blue and white porcelain ewer
Chinese incense burner
Chinese porcelain dish showing immortals
Chinese seals
Chinese shadow puppets
Cho Chung-hyon, earthenware vessel
Cizhou ware ceramic pillow
Clay jar with red-fired decoration
Cloisonné jar
Cloisonné mandala
Comic pictures and verses (toba-e), a handscroll painting
Conch shell trumpet
Cong di giada
Copper alloy figure of Tara
Copper and brass trumpet
Copper plate with inscription
Coral snuff bottle
Covered stoneware cup (kobae)
Daoist shrine
Dark grey schist head from a statue of the Buddha
Decorative bronze vase
Decorative horse-trapping
Dhratarastra, Guardian King of the East, a painting on hemp cloth
Ding family of the Jinchang pavillion, A basket of flowers, a colour woodblock print
Ding Liangxian, Arbutus and Grasshopper, a colour woodblock print
Ding Liangxian, Flowers and Incense, a colour woodblock print
Ding ware vase
Ding Yunpeng, The God of Literature, a hanging scroll painting
Dohoko (ritual spear blade)
Doucai jar
Doucai vase
Dragon tiles
Dry lacquer sculpture of the Buddha
Dutch Woman with a Parrot, a colour woodblock print
Earthenware model of a cart with bullock and human figures
Earthenware tile with a monster mask
Earthenware tile with a monster mask (kwimyun) design
Eight album leaves dedicated to Zhou Liangging, paintings in ink and colour on paper
Embroidered tangka of the dharmapala Yama
Emperor Huizong (attributed to), Gardenia and Lichee with Birds, a handscroll painting
Enamelled vase
Fahua vase
Famille rose butterfly bowl
Famille rose teacup and saucer
Figura di Shiva in bronzo dorato
Figura di Tara in bronzo dorato
Figure of Aizen Myo-o
Figure of Narasimha
Figure of the bodhisattva Fugen
Five porcelain bowls in the shape of fish
Folded silk jacket
Four Imari ware porcelain figures
Four luohans and attendants, a hanging scroll painting
Four manifestations of Avalokiteshvara, with Samantabhadra and Manjushri, a painting on silk
Fragment of a limestone pillar
Frontispiece to an illuminated manuscript of the Amitabha Sutra
Fuchi / kashira
Fukukensaku Kannon with two Guardian Deities, a hanging scroll painting
Gan Ku, Cat Killing a Bird, a hanging scroll painting
Gan Ku, One Hundred Old Men, a pair of 6-fold screen paintings
Gan Ku, Tiger, a hanging scroll painting
Gan Rei, Panorama of Higashiyama, a handscroll painting
Gan Tai, Eagle and a Monkey, a hanging scroll
Ganjifa playing cards
Gao Fenghan, The Ancient Pine of Dongmou, a fan painting
Garuda in anjalimudra
Gen Ki, Haunted palace, a handscroll painting
Gengzhi tu, 'Pictures of Tilling and Weaving', hand-coloured woodblock prints
Gessen, Landscapes with Figures, a handscroll painting
Giara cloisonné
Gilded bronze figure of Avalokiteshvara
Gilded bronze figure of Tara
Gilded bronze figure of Vajrasattva
Gilded comb top
Gilt and lacquered bronze statue of Shaka
Gilt bronze and silver figure of the enshrined Buddha
Gilt bronze figure of Padma Sambhava
Gilt bronze figure of Shiva
Gilt bronze mandala
Gilt bronze sword pommel
Gilt-bronze figure of Padmapani
Gilt-bronze figure of Shakyamuni
Gilt-copper decorative harness fitting
Glass snuff bottle, made by Liu Shou-ben
Glazed ceramic tile
Glazed pottery pond with figures
Glazed stoneware jar
Go Shun, Hare with Pestle in the Full Moon, a woodblock print surimono
Gold amulet containing relics
Gold and coloured lacquer sake pourer in the form of a boy attendant
Gold dagger handle
Gold garment plaque
Granite figure of a dvarapala
Granite figure of Dakshinamurti
Green ware vase
Grey schist relief of a seated winged atlas figure
Grey schist relief panel of figures venerating a stupa
Grey schist relief panel showing the maha-pari-nirvana
Group of sancai ceramic tomb figures
Guan ware vase
Hagiwara Hideo, 'In the Valley between the Buildings' (Biru no tanima ni), a colour woodblock print
Haji ware standing bowl (tazza)
Hanabusa Itcho, Xiwangmu, Butterflies around Bamboo and Chrysanthemums and Butterfly over Cotton Roses, a triptych of ha
Hanging bronze lamp shaped like a peacock
Hanging canopy (tengai)
Hanging flower vase
Hanging scroll painting with a portrait of the monk Jion Daishi
Hanging scroll painting with a portrait of the young Prince Shotoku Taishi
Haniwa
Hara Zaichu, Chinese Sages at Wuyu, a hanging scroll painting
Hara Zaichu, Tiger, a hanging scroll painting
Haruki Nammei, Mt Fuji from Edo Bay, a hanging scroll painting
Hashiguchi Goyo, Kamisuki (Combing the hair), a colour woodblock print
Heart Sutra of the Chuson-ji Temple, a handscroll painting on indigo-dyed paper
Heavenly Feet Society (Anti-Footbinding League) badge
Hirado ware incense burner
Hirado ware ring-handled jar
Hirasawa Byozan (attributed to), Scenes of Daily Life of the Ezo, a handscroll painting
Hishikawa Moronobu, Craftsmen of Various Trades, a pair of handscroll paintings
Hishikawa Moronobu, Scenes in a theatre tea-house, a handscroll painting
Horse bit
Hosoda Eishi, The Chinese beauty Yang Guifei, a hanging scroll painting
Hosokawa Honzo Yorinao, a woodblock print from Karakuri zui ('Illustrated Compendium of Clever Machines'
Hsun-ok
Hu Zhengyan, Shizhuzhai shuhua pu ('A Manual of Calligraphy and Painting from the Ten Bamboo Studio'), a
Huangdao ware dish
Igarashi Shummei, Lao Zi, a hanging scroll painting
Ikat-dyed cotton cloth
Ikat-dyed silk
Ikeda Koson, Shrike and Autumn Plants, a hanging scroll painting
Illustration to the Fumu enzhong jing, ink and colours on silk
Illustration to the Vimalakirtinirdesha Sutra, ink and colours on silk
Illustrations to the Sutra of the Ten Kings, a painting on paper roll
Incense box
Inro and netsuke, Daikoku Ten
Inscribed stele with the yakshi Ambika
Iron helmet
Iron model of a carp, made by Muneyori
Iron sword in a lacquered scabbard with carved wood fittings
Iron tsuba (sword guard)
Ishida Yutei, Deer and Japanese Cypress, a 2-fold screen painting
Ivory bodhisattva with attendants in a wooden shrine
Ivory figure of a rakan
Ivory figure of Chi She
Ivory figure of Vishnu on a naga throne
Ivory figure of Xiwangmu
Ivory netsuke depicting Handaka Sonja
Ivory netsuke of a mythical beast
Ivory netsuke, Kanyu
Ivory netsuke: a rat, a kirin and a bird's claw
Ivory netsuke: foxes
Ivory relief of Rama and Lakshmana
Ivory snuff bottle, a foshou citrus fruit
Ivory snuff equipment
Ivory statue of a falconer
Iwasa Matabei, Monk Mongaku, from Heike Monogatari ('Tale of the Heike')
Jade bi
Jade brush pot
Jade cicada
Jade cicadas
Jade coiled dragon
Jade cong
Jade cong
Jade demon mask
Jade disc, or bi
Jade dish
Jade eye plaques
Jade face
Jade figure of a crouching animal
Jade figure of a horse
Jade figure of a standing man
Jade ge
Jade hair ornament
Jade headdress ornament
Jade mountain
Jade ornament
Jade ornament for a weapon hilt
Jade ornament for the top of an axe shaft
Jade ornament in the shape of a flying deity
Jade pendant in the shape of a dragon
Jade pendant in the shape of an animal face
Jade pendants in the form of dragons
Jade pendants in the form of stags
Jade phoenix ornament
Jade plaques
Jade reaping knife
Jade rhyton
Jade slit rings (jue)
Jain yantra
Jiang Song (attributed to), Taking a lute to visit a friend, a hanging scroll painting in ink and slight colour on silk
Jichosai, Chushingura ('Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers'), a handscroll painting
Jimbaori (armour surcoat)
Jizhou tea bowl
Jun ware jar
Kaigetsudo Anchi, Courtesan, a woodblock print
Kaigetsudo Ando, Courtesan entering a mosquito net, a hanging scroll painting
Kakiemon ware lidded jar
Kakiemon ware porcelain bowl
Kano Eisen'in Michinobu, Cranes, a handscroll painting
Kano Isen'in Naganobu, Twelve Famous Places in Japan, an album of 12 paintings
Kano Josen Chikanobu, a handscroll painting of Giga (Comic Pictures)
Kano Kyuei, Scenes along the Length of the Sumida River, a set of 3 handscroll paintings
Kano Ryusetsu Hidenobu, Genji monogatari ('The Tale of Genji');, a pair of handscroll paintings
Kano school, Birds and Flowers of Autumn and Winter, 4 fusuma (sliding door panel) paintings
Kano school, Ibuki-doji ('Boy from Mt. Ibuki'), a set of 3 handscroll paintings
Kano Seisen'in Osanobu, copy after the handscroll Landscapes of the Four Seasons by Sesshu
Kano Shunko, Procession of an Embassy from the Ryukyu Kingdom, a pair of handscroll paintings
Kano Tanshin Morimasa, Tao Yuanming, a hanging scroll painting
Kano Tan'yu, a handscroll of shukuzu
Kano Tan'yu, Miscellaneous Subjects, a handscroll painting
Kano Torin Yoshinobu, Yang Guifei and Peonies, a triptych of hanging scroll paintings
Kano Tosen Nakanobu, Birds and Flowers after Classical Chinese Paintings, a hanging scroll painting
Kano Yoboku Tsunenobu, Hotei / Pheasant / Cock and Hen, a triptych of hanging scroll paintings
Kano Yukinobu (attributed to), Bird and Flowers, a hanging scroll painting
Kantei, Landscapes, a pair of hanging scroll paintings
Katagiri Ranseki, A sage pointing at the moon, a painting
Kataguchi (spouted vessel)
Katana (long sword) blade
Kato Nobukiyo, Descent of the Buddha Amida with two attendant bodhisattvas, a hanging scroll painting
Katsukawa Shun'ei (attributed to), Ten scenes of lovemaking, a handscroll painting
Katsukawa Shunsho, The actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Fudo Myo-o, a colour woodblock print
Katsushika Hokusai, Dragon ascending Mount Fuji from 'One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji' (Fugaku hyakkei),
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
Katsushika Hokusai, 'South Wind, Clear Sky' (Gaifu kaisei) ['Red Fuji'], a colour woodbl
Katsushika Hokusai, Tametomo and the inhabitants of Onigashima Island, a hanging scroll painting
Katsushika Hokusai, 'The Talisman' (Mayoke), a colour woodblock print
Katsushika Hokusai, 'Under the Wave, off Kanagawa' (Kanagawa oki nami-ura), a colour woodblock print
Kawahara Keiga (attributed to), Genre scenes, paintings
Kawamura Bumpo, Chinese Scholars and Japanese Festival Scenes, a pair of handscroll paintings
Kawamura Bumpo, Scattered Fans over Waves
Kawanabe Kyosai, Female Ghost, a hanging scroll painting
Kawanabe Kyosai, Susano'o no Mikoto subduing the eight-headed serpent, a hanging scroll painting
Kei Shokei (attributed to), Mountain landscape, a hanging scroll painting
Keisai Eisen, Young woman arranging her hair, a hanging scroll painting
Kettle for informal tea
Ki Baitei, Shrine servant, a colour woodblock surimono print
Kim Hong-do (after), Album of Scenes from Daily Life
Kiseto ware bowl
Kishi Chikudo, Cherry Blossoms on a Spring Evening, a pair of 2-fold screen paintings
Kitagawa Tsukimaro, Geisha, a pair of hanging scroll paintings
Kitagawa Utamaro, Lovers in an upstairs room, from Uta makura ('Poem of the Pillow'), a colour woodblock
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
Kitagawa Utamaro, Woman at her morning toilette, a hanging scroll painting
Kitagawa Utamaro, Women sewing, a triptych of colour woodblock prints
Kitano tenjin engi ('Origins of the Kitano Tenjin shrine'), a 6-fold screen painting
Kitao Masanobu, The courtesans Hinazuru and Chozan a coloured woodblock print
Kitao Masayoshi, Partridges, a colour woodblock print
Ko Sukei, Shrine Festival, a hanging scroll painting
Kobayashi Kiyochika, The journalist Fukuchi Gen'ichiro, a colour woodblock print
Kogo ('incense container') in the form of a dove
Kshitigarbha as Lord of the Six Ways, ink and colours on silk
Kshitigarbha with the Ten Kings of Hell, ink and colours on silk
Kshitigarbha, ink and colours on a silk banner
Kubo Shumman, A party in 'Shikian' Restaurant at Nakazu, a diptych of woodblock prints
Kubota Beisen and others, Myriad Fish, a handscroll painting
Lacquer box with mother-of-pearl inlay
Lacquer chest
Lacquer cup
Lacquer dish
Lacquer document box
Lacquer inro
Lacquer inro
Lacquer inro
Lacquer inro
Lacquer inro
Lacquer pyx (sacrament box)
Lacquer snuff bottle
Lacquer writing-box
Lacquered box
Lacquered sutra box
Lacquered vessel
Landscape by Dong Qichang, a hanging scroll painting
Landscape by Zhu Xiuli, a handscroll painting
Landscape in 'boneless' style by Hu Youkun, an album leaf painting
Landscape in the style of Ni Zan by Wang Hui, a fan painting
Large covered jar with underglaze blue decoration
Large neo-Jomon pot
Large porcelain dish
Large porcelain platter
Large underglaze-painted jar
Leng Mei, Portrait of a Lady, a hanging scroll painting
Life of Shaka, a set of 3 handscroll paintings
Limestone drum slab depicting the birth of Prince Siddhartha
Limestone drum slab with carving on two sides
Limestone panel depicting the Buddhapada
Limestone pillar depicting scenes from the life of Buddha
Limestone relief panel depicting a chakravartin
Limestone relief panel depicting the Great Departure of Prince Siddhartha
Limestone relief panel showing the conversion of Sundarananda
Limestone roundel depicting the Mandhata jataka
Limestone roundel depicting the worship of a reliquary
Linga and yoni
Liu Sahe and scenes from the story of the miraculous image of Mount Yugu, ink and colours on silk (fragment)
Lobed jade cup
Lokapala, ink and colours on silk (fragment)
Long-necked stoneware jar
Long-necked Sue jar
Longquan ware vase with Daoist immortals
Luohan in grès
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
Mani stone
Manjushri visiting Vimalakirti, ink and colours on paper
Marble figure of the Buddha Amitabha
Marble pillar from a Jain temple
Marble relief figure of Sarasvati
Marble statue of a tirthankara
Maruyama okyo, Cracked ice, a 2-fold screen painting
Maruyama okyo, Nine Old Men of Mt. Xiang, a 2-fold screen painting
Maruyama oshin, Cherry Trees at Arashi-yama, and Otoko-yama by Moonlight, a pair of hanging scroll paintings
Mask of a shishi
Masuyama Sessai, Birds and Flowers, a hanging scroll painting
Matsumura Keibun and Shibata Gito, Geese and Full Moon, a hanging scroll painting
Matsumura Keibun, Morning glory, a hanging scroll painting
Matsumura Keibun, View of Arashiyama, a 6-fold screen painting
Matsuno Chikanobu, Standing courtesan, a hanging scroll painting
Melon-shaped celadon vase
Men hunting wild boar, painting in gouache on paper
Merman: part monkey, part fish
Minamoto no Yoritomo in court dress, a hanging scroll painting
Miniature portrait watercolours, ink and gold on paper
Miyagawa Choshun, Pastimes of the new year and flower viewing, a pair of handscroll paintings
Mizusashi (water jar)
Model food dishes for the afterlife
Model theatre
Mokuan Shoto, Sei ('Essence'), a calligraphic hanging scroll
Monk seated in meditation, ink and colours on paper
Moon-shaped flask with birds
Mori Ippo, Pine trees at Maiko-no-Hama beach, a pair of 6-fold screen paintings
Mori Ransai, Birds and Flowers, a hanging scroll painting
Mori Shuho and others, Turtles, a hanging scroll painting
Mori Shuho, Horses, a 4-fold screen painting
Mori Sosen, Monkeys, a hanging scroll painting
Mori Tetsuzan, Xiwangmu, a hanging scroll painting
Mori Yoshitoshi, Mie o kiru ('Posturize'), a stencil print
Morikawa Sobun, Deer and Pine in the Snow, a pair of 6-fold screen paintings
Morikawa Sobun, Spring Scenery, a hanging scroll painting
Moritoshi, Courtesan in a white kimono, a hanging scroll painting
Munakata Shiko, 'Kanaya' (Kanaya), a woodblock print
Nabeshima dish
Nabeshima ware dish with maple leaves
Negoro ware sake bottle
Netsuke, boar's tusk with a crab, carved by Bokugyuken Toshiharu
Netsuke, sennin
Netsuke, shishi on a seal base
Nguyen Cong Do, an original design for a poster
Nguyen De, a watercolour
Nguyen Tho, a crayon drawing
Nguyen Thu, a drawing
Nguyen Thu, a drawing in black chalk
Nguyen Thu, a painting
Nguyen Thu, a watercolour
Nguyen Thu, an original design for a poster
Nguyen Van Binh, a drawing
Nguyen Van Tru, a drawing
Nine-lobed porcelain dish
Nishimura Shigenaga, The actor Sanjo Kantaro as a tea-seller, a woodblock print
Nishiyama Hoen, Procession of Insects, a hanging scroll painting
Nishiyama Hoen, Various Birds, a handscroll painting
Nishiyama Kan'ei, Scenes of Daily Life in Osaka, a handscroll painting
No mask known as hannya
No mask of a young woman
Nozaki Shin'ichi, Paper Hina Dolls and Cherry Blossoms, a triptych of hanging scroll paintings
Nukina Kaioku, Landscape, a hanging scroll painting
Octagonal nest of boxes for food
Oda Kaisen, Egret on a Willow, a hanging scroll painting
ohara Donshu, Priest Xuan-zhuang and his attendants from the Xijouji, a hanging scroll painting
ohi ware teabowl
Okamoto Toyohiko, Mountain Village, a 2-fold screen painting
Okamoto Toyohiko, Seashore and Mountains in the Seasons, a pair of 6-fold screen paintings
Okimono of turtles, by Masanao
Okumura Masanobu (after), a wooden printing block for two illustrations from the album Yukun Sennin ('Courtesans
Okumura Masanobu, Courtesans as Three Sake Drinkers, a woodblock print
Okumura Masanobu, Two geisha and a boy carrying a shamisen case, a woodblock print
Onchi Koshiro, The Sea, a triptych, 1 painted study and 2 colour woodblock prints
One hundred bird coat
Oribe ware food dish
Painted and coloured paper flowers
Painted clay and wood figure of a horse
Painted clay figure of Sarvabuddhadakini
Painted rickshaw
Painted silk headpiece from a banner
Painted wood figure of the bodhisattva Manjushri
Painted wooden bookcover
Painted wooden figure of the artist Sesshu Toyo, by Miwa
Painted wooden panel showing riders with bowls
Pair of fragments of silk
Pair of gold ear-rings
Pair of porcelain model elephants
Pair of stirrups
Pair of stone guardian figures
Pair of wooden bodhisattvas
Panel from a shrine or temple
Paradise of Amitabha, ink and colours on silk
Paradise of Bhaishajyaguru, ink and colours on silk
Paradise of Bhaishajyaguru, ink and colours on silk
Paradise of Maitreya, ink and colours on silk
Paradise of Shakyamuni, with illustrations of episodes from the Baoen Sutra, ink and colours on silk
Patchwork of silk, probably a kasaya
Pewter box with porcelain tea caddies
Pilaster from a tomb
Pillar edict of Emperor Asoka
Pipes and smoking sets
Poetry Contest of Forty-two Matches, a handscroll painting
Porcelain bowl with armorial-style decoration
Porcelain bowl with Xiwangmu
Porcelain brush pot
Porcelain coffee pot
Porcelain cup stand
Porcelain Ding ware bowl
Porcelain figure of a carouser astride a barrel
Porcelain figure of a god
Porcelain handled jug
Porcelain 'monk's cap' ewer
Porcelain phoenix-headed ewer
Porcelain placenta jar
Porcelain plate with design of auspicious fruits
Porcelain plate with design of dragon
Porcelain plate with design of tiger
Porcelain rhyton (drinking horn)
Porcelain seal-paste box
Porcelain soup plate made for Lord Anson
Porcelain storage jar
Porcelain teapot
Portable lacquered wood shrine
Portable set for outdoor Tea Ceremony
Portable shrine
Pottery amphora
Pottery jar with dragon handles
Pottery vessel
Pottery vessel
Prayer mat (musallaa kunaa)
Prayer wheel
Pronk basin
Punchong ware maebyong vase
Purse and netsuke
Qian Xuan, Young nobleman on horseback, a handscroll painting
Qingbai wine ewer and basin
Quang Tho, a charcoal drawing
Quang Tho, a drawing
Quang Tho, a graphite drawing
Quang Tho, a painting in gouache
Rabbits and autumn grasses, a 6-fold screen painting
Raja Hari Singh with waterpipe and attendants, gouache on paper
Raku-style teabowl, by Takahashi Dohachi II
Rama on Hanuman fighting Ravana, an album painting on paper
Red earthenware bowl
Red lacquer cup stand
Red lacquer inro
Red sandstone figure of a tirthankara
Red sandstone pillar capital
Red sandstone railing pillar
Relief sandstone panel depicting the Saptamatrika
Relief sculpture of Varaha with Bhu and Gadadevi
Reliquary in the form of a model stupa
Representations of Famous Buddhist Images, ink and colours on silk (fragments)
Rhinoceros horn cup
Ridge tile
Ring and sword of Tipu Sultan
Ring stone with goddesses
Rock-crystal seal of king Avarighsa
Roof tile figure of the Immortal Han Xiangzi
Round mirror box
Ru ware cup-stand
Rush mat
Saddle
Saigyo monogatari emaki ('Illustrated Life of Monk Saigyo'), a handscroll painting
Saito Shuho, Kishi empu ('Mr. Aoi's Chronicle of Charm'), a colour woodblock printed book
Sakai Doitsu, Mt Fuji and Pines, a hanging scroll painting
Salt bag
Samantabhadra and Manjushri, ink and colours on silk
Samantabhadra, ink and colours on a silk banner
Sanage ware ceremonial jar
Sandstone figure of a Hindu goddess
Sandstone figure of Chamunda
Sandstone figure of Shalabhanjika Yakshi
Sandstone figure of Surya
Sandstone figure of the Buddha
Sandstone figure of the seated Buddha
Sandstone fragment of a doorjamb
Sandstone miniature Hindu temple
Sandstone stele depicting Matsya
Sandstone stele of Lakulisha
Sandstone stele with a figure of Harihara
Sandstone stele with a figure of Vishnu
Saru no soshi ('Illustrated Tale of Monkeys'), a handscroll painting
Scenes from Ise monogatari ('Tales of Ise'), a 6-fold screen painting
Scenes from the legend of Gazi
Scenes from the Life of the Buddha, ink and colours on a silk banner
Scenes from the Life of the Buddha, ink and colours on silk
Scenes from the Life of the Buddha, ink and colours on silk
Scenes of Foreigners: England, a colour woodblock print by Utagawa Yoshitora
Schist figure of a matrika (mother goddess)
Schist head of the fasting Buddha
Schist relief panel depicting the division of the Buddha's relics
Schist relief panel with a scene of the eve of Siddhartha's departure
Schist sculpture of a four-faced linga
Schist standing figure of Buddha
Sculpted panel depicting Vishnu Trivikrama
Sculpture of Buddha with kneeling Maitreya
Sculpture of the Buddha
Seated figure of Shaka
Seated grey schist figure of Hariti with children
Seated lama
Sesso Toyo, Haboku-style landscape, a hanging scroll painting
Set of armour
Set of porcelain epitaph tablets
Seto ware mizusashi (water jar)
Shakyamuni preaching on the Vulture Peak, silk embroidery on hemp cloth
Shell game box decorated with scenes from Genji monogatari ('The Tale of Genji')
Shiba Kokan, 'Tweelandbruk', a hand-coloured copperplate etching
Shibata Gito, Acrobats, a 2-fold screen painting
Shibata Zeshin, Eagle in the Snow, a hanging scroll painting
Shibata Zeshin, Kamo Festival, a hanging scroll painting
Shigaraki ware tea storage jar
Shimomura Kanzan, Diogenes, a hanging scroll painting
Shino ware cake dish
Shiokawa Bunrin, Fireflies, a hanging scroll painting
Shiokawa Bunrin, Moon over Lake Biwa, a hanging scroll painting
Shiva, Parvati and their children on Mount Kailash, a drawing
Shotoku Taishi e-den ('Illustrated biography of Prince Shotoku Taishi'), fragments from a set of hanging
Shuten Doji ('Yorimitsu and the drunken monster of Mount Ibuki'), a handscroll painting
Silk altar valance
Silk embroidery panel with flowers and ducks
Silver Buddha on a bronze lotus base
Sketches for illustrations to the Vimalakirtinirdesha Sutra, ink and colours on paper
Spouted vessel
Stall for the sale of painted figures, a painting in the Company style
Stamped punchong ware bowl
Standing figure of a bodhisattva
Statue of a retired townsman
Steatite seals from the Indus Valley
Stela with a female figure
Stele with a standing figure of Vishnu
Stemcup with sea creatures
Stemmed Haji ware bowl with handle
Stencil for a five-figure Buddha group, painting on paper
Stone figure of a bodhisattva
Stone figure of Brahma
Stone figure of Mamaki
Stone figure of the war-god Skanda
Stone lintel
Stone palette, or toilet tray
Stone relief of the Crowned Buddha
Stone relief of Umamaheshvara
Stone relief of Vajrasattva
Stone sculpture of Durga Mahishasuramardini
Stone sculpture of Shakti-Ganesha
Stone statue of Shiva as Lingodbhava
Stone stele with the dharmapala Mahakala
Stoneware bowl with underglaze copper-red decoration
Stoneware ewer in the shape of a mermaid
Stoneware figure of Budai ('Laughing Buddha')
Stoneware jar and lid
Stoneware jar with ox-horn shaped handles
Stoneware kundika (water sprinkler)
Stoneware luohan
Stoneware maebyong vase
Stoneware maebyong vase
Stoneware spouted funerary cup in the shape of a duck
Stoneware stand
Stoneware storage jar
Stoneware wine ewer
Stucco head of a monk
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
Suminoe Buzen, Mt Fuji and Shiraito Falls, a hanging scroll painting
Sumiyoshi Hirosada, Court amusements in spring and autumn, a pair of hanging scroll paintings
Sumiyoshi Jokei (paintings) and various courtiers (calligraphy), pages from an album of Ise monogatari ('Tales o
Sumiyoshi Keishu, Birds and Flowers in Four Seasons, a pair of hanging scroll paintings
Sumiyoshi Keishu, Falcons on Perches, a pair of hanging scroll paintings
Suzuki Harunobu (attributed to), Parody of Monk Saigyo gazing at Mt Fuji, a colour woodblock print
Suzuki Harunobu, Hunting for insects, a colour woodblock print
Suzuki Hyakunen, Planting Rice Seedlings in the Rain, a hanging scroll painting
Suzuki Kason, Pine, Bird and Spider, a 2-fold screen painting
Suzuki Kiitsu, Flowers and grasses of the Four Seasons, a pair of hanging scroll paintings
Suzuki Kiitsu, The Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry, a hanging scroll painting
Suzuki Shonen, Composing a Poem among the Pines, a hanging scroll painting
Suzuki Shuitsu, Enjoying the Evening Cool by the Dry Riverbed at Shijo, a hanging scroll painting
Sword
Sword mounting in itamaki tachi style
Sword travelling-case with grapevine design
Tachi (long sword) blade
Tachi (long sword) blade
Takehisa Yumeji, 'Princess Tatsuta' (Tatsuta-hime), a colour woodblock print
Talisman of the Pole Star, ink and colours on paper
Tamba ware mizusashi (water jar)
Tangka of the arhat Kanakavatsa
Tani Buncho, Dragon in Clouds, a hanging scroll painting
Tani Buncho, Earthly Paradise of Wuling, a handscroll painting
Tani Buncho, Kazan en'u ('Summer Mountains and Misty Rain'), a hanging scroll painting
Tanto (dagger) blade
Teabowl with hakeme
Teabowl, by Raku Ichinyu
Tea-caddy, with its set of bags and containers
Tejaprabha Buddha and the Five Planets, ink and colours on silk
Temmoku type teabowl
Terracotta female head
Terracotta figurine
Terracotta head of a bodhisattva
Terracotta tile with a musician
Terracotta tile with crouching figures
The Admonitions Scroll
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 Great Renunciation, a painting on hemp cloth
The Kulu vase
The Nymph of the Luo River, a handscroll painting
The river festival at Tsushima shrine, a pair of 8-fold screen paintings
The Six Realms of Birth, 10 hanging scroll paintings
The Story of the Silk Princess, a wooden panel painting
The thirteenth arhat, Ingada, a hanging scroll painting
Thousand-armed, thousand-eyed Avalokiteshvara, ink and colours on silk
Thousand-armed, Thousand-eyed Avalokiteshvara, ink and colours on silk
Three terracotta figures of mother goddesses
Tiered lacquer picnic box
Torii Kiyomasu I, The actors otani Hiroji and Ichikawa Danzo in an 'armour-tugging' (kusazuri-biki) scene, a woodblock p
Torii Kiyonaga, A girl dancing with shell clappers under her feet, a woodblock print
Torii Kiyonaga, Travellers at Enoshima, a triptych of colour woodblock prints
Tosa Mitsumochi, Horse-breaking, a 2-fold screen painting
Tosa Mitsunari, Monk Saigyo, a hanging scroll painting
Tosa Mitsusada, Quails and Wheat, a hanging scroll painting
Tosa school, Ise monogatari ('Tales of Ise'), a set of 5 handscroll paintings
Tosaka Bun'yo, Hawk and a Bear, a pair of hanging scroll paintings
Toshusai Sharaku, The Actors Nakamura Wadaemon and Nakamura Konozo, a woodblock print
Travelling chest (kamaboko-bako)
Travelling monk, ink and colours on paper
Trumpet-necked storage jar
Tsuba (sword guard)
Tsubaki Chinzan, Bird and Flowers, a hanging scroll painting
Tsubaki Chinzan, Flowers and Plants in the Style of Chen Shun, a handscroll painting
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Courtesan with a pillow, a hanging scroll painting
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Empress Jingu leading the invasion of Korea, a preparatory drawing and colour woodblock print
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Yuki ('Snow'), a colour woodblock print
Two dotaku (ritual bells)
Two lidded jars and two trumpet vases
Two standing Avalokiteshvara, ink and colour on silk
Ukita Ikkei, Annual Events at the Imperial Court, an album of paintings
Unkoku Toki, Hawk on a Willow, a hanging scroll painting
Utagawa Hiroshige II, Two views of Mt. Fuji from the Sumida River, a pair of hanging scroll paintings
Utagawa Hiroshige, 'Evening bell at Mii Temple' (Mii bansho), a colour woodblock print
Utagawa Hiroshige, 'Suido Bridge and Surugadai' (Suidobashi Surugadai), a colour woodblock print
Utagawa Hiroshige, 'The Sea at Satta, Suruga Province' (Suruga Satta kaijo), a colour woodblock print
Utagawa Hiroshige, 'Yui: Satta Peak' (Yui, Satta-mine), a colour woodblock print
Utagawa Kunimasa, The actor Ichikawa Ebizo in a shibaraku role, a colour woodblock print
Utagawa Kunisada, Beauty beside a standing lantern, a colour woodblock print
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, A farewell surimono for Ichikawa Danjuro VIII, a colour woodblock print
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Princess Takiyasha summons a skeleton spectre to frighten Mitsukuni, a triptych of colour woodblock p
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, The Wrestler Roshi Ensei, a colour woodblock print
Utagawa Sadahide, European Toy Stall, a woodblock print
Utagawa Toyoharu (attributed to), Courtesans of the Tamaya House, a screen painting
Utagawa Toyokuni, The Kabuki actor Segawa Ronosuke as Shizuka Gozen, a hanging scroll painting
Vaishravana riding across the waters, a painting on silk
Vaishravana with attendants, a woodblock print on paper
Vajrapani, ink and colours on a silk banner
Vajrapani, ink and colours on a silk banner
Vajrapani, ink and colours on silk
Van Da, a drawing in ink
Varaha with Bhu, gouache on paper
Vaso luna in porcellana bianca
Views of Tomogashima, a handscroll painting
Views of Ueno and Asakusa, a pair of handscroll paintings
Virupaksha, Guardian of the West, ink and colours on a silk banner
Wakizashi (companion sword) blade
Wakizashi (companion sword) mounting
Watanabe Nangaku, Beauty and Attendant, a hanging scroll painting
Watanabe Shotei, Swallows on a Willow, a hanging scroll painting
Water-Moon Guanyin, ink and colours on paper
Water-Moon Guanyin, ink and colours on paper
Wen Zhengming, Wintry Trees, a hanging scroll painting
White marble sculpture of the child Krishna
White porcelain 'moon jar'
White porcelain storage jar in underglaze iron
White porcelain water-dropper
Wood and ivory chest
Wood and ivory netsuke, palaces in a clam, carved by Kagetoshi
Wood and ivory netsuke, The Dream of Rosei, carved by Kagetoshi
Wood and ivory netsuke: Dojoji, carved by Konan Minko
Wooden figure
Wooden figure of Avalokiteshvara
Wooden figure of Fudo Myo-o
Wooden figure of Kichijoten
Wooden figure of Krishna
Wooden figure of the Buddha Amida
Wooden Gigaku mask
Wooden guardian figure
Wooden head of the Buddha Amida
Wooden henta board
Wooden hornbill figure (kenyalang)
Wooden model of a chariot (ratha)
Wooden netsuke by Hojitsu
Wooden netsuke, a Dutchman and a cockerel
Wooden netsuke: a wasps' nest
Wooden netsuke: Ashinaga and Tenaga
Wooden panel with a musician
Wooden shishi mask
Wooden statue of Shotoku Taishi
Wool cloth bed cover (shaffi)
Woollen floor rug (sofreh)
Writing-box
Writing-box (suzuribako)
Xie Chufang, Fascination of Nature, a handscroll painting
Xu You and Qao Fu, a 2-fold screen painting
Yamamoto Shurei, Beauties, a hanging scroll painting
Yang Yanping, Autumn Lotus Pond, a horizontal scroll painting
Yaozhou ceramic box
Yi Che-gwan (attributed to), Portrait of a Confucian scholar, a painting
Yokoi Kinkoku, Lakeside village in the mountains, a hanging scroll painting
Yokoi Kinkoku, Orchid Pavilion Poem Competition, a hanging scroll painting
Yokoyama Kazan, Enjoying the Evening Cool Beneath Moonflowers, a hanging scroll painting
Yue ware water dropper
Yun Baek-ha (Yun Sun), a calligraphic handscroll
Zhao Zongzao, Highland Barley, a series of 3 woodblock prints

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