
Finches and bamboo
Emperor Huizong (d. 1135)
early 12th century · Handscroll; ink and color on silk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Finches and bamboo
Emperor Huizong (d. 1135)
early 12th century · Handscroll; ink and color on silk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Quatrain on fishermen
Emperor Gaozong (d. 1187)
12th century · Fan mounted as album leaf; ink on silk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain
Emperor Gaozong (d. 1187)
after 1162 · Fan mounted as album leaf; ink on silk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Couplet on pond scenery
Emperor Xiaozong (d. 1194)
ca. 12th century · Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on silk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Section of the Sutra on the Contemplation of Immeasurable Life, one of the “Rengeōin Fragments” (Rengeō’in-gire)
Emperor Shirakawa (d. 1129)
12th century · Hanging scroll; gold and malachite on paper decorated in gold and silver
Cleared · Public Domain
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Couplet on an Autumn Sky
Emperor Lizong (d. 1264)
1264 · Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on silk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Quatrain by Meng Haoran
Emperor Lizong (d. 1264)
ca. 1260–64 · Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on silk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Quatrain on a Spring Garden
Emperor Lizong (d. 1264)
1264 · Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on silk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Remonstrating with the emperor
Liu Jun (d. 1505)
late 15th–early 16th century · Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Cleared · Public Domain
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A Passage from the Heart Sutra
Emperor Go-Yōzei (d. 1617)
early 17th century · Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Two Paintings of Deer Antlers
Qianlong Emperor (d. 1799)
dated 1762 and 1767 · Two handscrolls; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Elder Son Remonstrating with His Father, from The Parable of the Prodigal Son, plate 6
Philips Galle (d. 1612)
1562 · Engraving; first state of four (New Hollstein)
In copyright
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