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: Bowl with Kufic Calligraphy

The Arabic inscription on this bowl reads, “Planning before work protects from regrets; patience is the key to comfort.”

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.

    On View: Fragment from a Relief of Men Rowing

    This relief was once part of a large-scale depiction of a major religious festival in which boats carrying divine images were towed across t...

     

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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 FoliagePlum 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 EdoInside Kameido Tenjin Shrine (Kameido Tenjin Keidai), No. 65 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
     
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    "we may glorify the eagle the bird of prey that is in the air over Fukagawa Susaki at its moment of decision as it eyes the birds near the wooden bucket at the edge of the bay: but it too for all its magnificence is flesh and a bundle of needs as are people all the ones who have come and gone and now in this moment there is just us flesh and a bundle of needs "
    By RajArumugam

    "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 "
    By Raj Arumugam

    "Netsuke depicting 2 men drinking Dancing Man: My right foot up and my left hand on my head Oh this sake brings me Heavenly fever; sake purifies my heart and the gods are pleased and I dance like the Shinto spirits of old Man with the cup: Oh, drink and be merry be lifted high in the air by sake and its spirit; the Toji has done well a master brewer he; and dance you well in this ecstasy and while your eyes are towards the gods I’ll steal a sip or two that shall build into more than a cup for me: O dance in the spirit of sake - another cup I hold ready for you, always "
    By RajArumugam

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