Collections: Asian Art

  • 1st Floor
    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
  • 2nd Floor
    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
  • 3rd Floor
    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
  • 4th Floor
    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
  • 5th Floor
    Luce Center for American Art

On View: Relief of Antelopes

The scene to which this block once belonged probably showed a desert hunting party. The hunters, Akhenaten and his entourage, would have app...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

 

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Ewer with CoverCovered TrayAn Old Man Walking by a Stream, with Distant MountainsAmr, Disguised as Mazmahil the Surgeon, Practices Quackery on the Sorcerers of AntaliShrine with an Image of a BodhisattvaArghan Div Brings the Chest of Armor to HamzaCherry Blossom Viewing PicnicWine Vessel (Zun) in the Form of a GooseRitual Tripod Vessel (Ding)Head of a GuardianLandscapeNihonbashiDish Depicting a Dragon Amongst FoliageSeated DivinityPlum Garden, Kamata (Kamata no Umezono), No. 27 from One Hundred Famous Views of EdoSudden Shower Over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake (Ohashi Atake no Yudachi), No. 58 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
 
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"here we are travellers across the river of life and time across samsara, of cycles we are such beings such energy bundles in an almost endless crossing so remember than the name of Amida remember his face of wisdom his hand of radiance there is no darkness in our journey that is not lit by wisdom there is no fear in our hearts that is not subdued by compassion so remember then Amida the radiant one in the Zenkoji temple repeat the name of Amida as you cross the ocean of samsara for that name is radiance that is wisdom, that is the means - that name Amida, Amida, Amida Amitabha of Zenkoji temple "
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