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: Power Figure (Nkishi)

While Western collectors value the visual impact of power figures, the ultimate importance of these sculptures to the Songye lies in their e...

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: Tile

    These tiles set in a plain, painted wooden frame were probably arranged in this manner for display in a showroom, as opposed to the more ela...

     

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    Moto-Hachiman Shrine, Sumamura, No. 29 in One Hundred Famous Views of EdoYanagishima, No. 32 in One Hundred Famous Views of EdoTowboats Along the Yotsugi-dori Canal, No. 33 in One Hundred Famous Views of EdoView From Massaki of Suijin Shrine, Uchigawa Inlet, and Sekiya, No. 36 in One Hundred Famous Views of EdoDawn Inside the Yoshiwara, No. 38 in One Hundred Views of EdoBashos Hermitage and Camellia Hill on the Kanda Aqueduct at Sekiguchi, No. 40 in One Hundred Famous Views of EdoIchigaya Hachiman Shrine, No. 41 in One Hundred Famous Views of EdoBlossoms on the Tama River Embankment, No. 42 in One Hundred Famous Views of EdoView of Nihonbashi Tori-itchome (Nihonbashi Tori-itchome Ryakuzu), No. 44 from One Hundred Famous Views of EdoNihonbashi Bridge and Edobashi Bridge (Nihonbashi to Edobashi), No. 43 from One Hundred Famous Views of EdoYoroi Ferry, Koami-cho (Yoroi no Watashi Koami-cho), No. 46 from One Hundred Famous Views of EdoFudo Falls, Oji, No. 49 from One Hundred Famous Views of EdoSeido and Kanda River From Shohei Bridge, No. 47 from One Hundred Famous Views of EdoAkasaka Kiribatake, No. 52 from One Hundred Famous Views of EdoZojoji Pagoda and Akabane, No. 53 from One Hundred Famous Views of EdoMannen Bridge, Fukagawa (Fukagawa Mannenbashi), No. 56 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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