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Explore our online collection of 191,665 artworks spanning ancient times to the present day.

Ichikawa Danjūrō VII as Soga no Gorō

Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)

The Three Friends (San-yū Zu)

Artist: Sō Shizan (Japanese, 1733–1805)

Jumping carp

Artist: Sō Shizan (Japanese, 1733–1805)

Pine Tree\r\n

Artist: Ōnishi Chinnen (Japanese, 1792–1851)

Courtesan Resting with a Copy of “The Pillow Book”

Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)

The peddler Oharame smokes a pipe beside her bundle of sticks from the series Black Brooms

Artist: Utagawa Sadakage (act. ca. 1820 - 1830)

Folding-Fan Kite

Artist: Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)

Petting Ox with white goat

Artist: Katsukawa Shuntei (Japanese, 1770–1820)

First fresh water of the year

Artist: Nakajima Yūshō (Japanese, 1837–1905)

Sake Cup with a Paper Ornament and a Senryō for the New Year

Artist: Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, ca. 1786–1855)

Three actors in a scene from Onna Goemon

Artist: Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786–1865)

Travellers arriving at the Echizen-ya teahouse

Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)

Three Crabs at Water’s Edge

Artist: Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, ca. 1786–1855)

Chrysanthemum Dew, from the series Selection of Perfumes

Artist: Yanagawa Shigenobu II (Japanese, active ca. 1820–60)

Chapters "Akashi," "Miotsukushi," and "Yomogiu", from the series Tale of Genji

Artist: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai (Japanese, ca. 1764–ca. 1820)

A strolling courtier waves to a lady-in-waiting sitting on a veranda with her young attendant

Artist: Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)

Arare Tenjin Festival Float

Artist: Takashima Chiharu (Japanese, 1777–1859)

Snake Coiled around a Pine Tree before the Rising Sun

Artist: Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)

Sparrow-shell, from the series Genroku Poem-Shell Matching Game

Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)

Sōma Ware (Sōma yaki), from the series Horse Compendium (Uma zukushi)

Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)

Three beauties

Artist: Sonsai Kōitsu (Japanese, active ca. 1820–30)

Rat and New Year's plant from Collection of Thirty-six Birds and Animals (Sanjūrokkin Tsuzuki)

Artist: Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)

Mount Tenpō (Tenpōzan), from the series Eighteen Admirations of Naniwa in Spring (Naniwa shunshō jūhachi-ban no uchi)

Artist: Madoya (Japanese, active ca. 1830s)

Fuji-shaped Fan, crane-decorated inrō and turtle-shaped netsuke

Artist: Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)

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