Pine Trees
Hasegawa Tōhaku · 1580
Tokyo National Museum
Tokyo
The largest collection of Japanese art anywhere, including the Wind God and Thunder God screens. Japan’s oldest museum, in Ueno Park, and a thousand yen for the collection galleries.
What to see
Pine Trees
Hasegawa Tōhaku · 1580
Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga
Toba Sōjō · 1150
Wind God and Thunder God
Ogata Kōrin · c. 1700
Ogata Kōrin, 1800. Wind God and Thunder God is a painting on a pair of two-folded byōbu by Rinpa artist Ogata Kōrin, a replica of a similar work by Tawaraya Sōtatsu, depicting Raijin, the god of lightning, thunder and storms in the Shinto religion and in Japanese mythology, and Fūjin, the god of wind.
Cypress Trees
Kanō Eitoku · 1590
Cypress Trees (檜図, hinoki-zu) is a Kanō-school byōbu or folding screen attributed to the Japanese painter Kanō Eitoku (1543 to 1590), one of the most prominent patriarchs of the Kanō school of Japanese painting. The painting dates to the Azuchi, Momoyama period (1573 to 1615).
Haboku sansui
Sesshū Tōyō · 1495
Haboku sansui (破墨山水図, haboku sansui-zu; Broken Ink Landscape) is a splashed-ink landscape painting on a hanging scroll. It was made by the Japanese artist Sesshū Tōyō in 1495, in the Muromachi period.
Dōjigiri
Dōjigiri (童子切, "Slayer of Shuten-dōji") is a tachi-type Japanese sword that has been identified as a National Treasure of Japan. This sword is one of the "Five Swords Under Heaven" (天下五剣 Tenka-Goken).
Artists
Japan · 1300–1400
Japan · 1558–1637
Japan · 1658–1716
Japanese · 1420–1506
Japan · 1434–1525
Japan · 1539–1610
Artworks
Morning Glories and Puppies
Maruyama Ōkyo · 1784
Merrymaking Under the Cherry Blossoms
Kanō Naganobu · 1650
Ishida Masamune
Masamune
Flowering Plants of Summer and Autumn
Sakai Hōitsu · 1821
Hari-shigoto
Kitagawa Utamaro
Portrait of Takami Senseki
Watanabe Kazan · 1837
Rakuchū rakugai zu (Funaki)
Iwasa Matabē · 1615
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Katsushika Hokusai · 1830
Shuhanron Emaki
Kanō Motonobu · 16th century
Kiyomizu-dera Engi Emaki
Tosa Mitsunobu · 1517
Writing Box with a Bugaku Performer
Honami Kōetsu
Yamada-den Amida Triad
Sources
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