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Travelers Among Mountains and Streams
A Tall Pine and Daoist Immortal
Buddhist Monastery by Streams and Mountains, hanging scroll attributed to Juran, second half of the 10th century; in the Cleveland (Ohio) Museum of Art.
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
Zhu Yuanzhang
Cai Wenji
Narcissus and Flowering Apricots, hanging scroll in ink and colour by Qiu Ying, 1547; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ren Renfa: Nine Horses
Chinese children playing with marionettes
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Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains, detail of hand scroll in ink and paper by Xia Gui, early 13th century (Southern Song); in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Sesshū: Landscape of Four Seasons
Sesshū
Japanese artist
Ma Yuan: Scholar by a Waterfall
Ma Yuan
Chinese painter
Ogata Kōrin: Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)
Ogata Kōrin
Japanese artist
Sōtatsu: Genji monogatari: Miotsukushi
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Wang Hui
Chinese painter
Wang Meng: Scholar in a Pavilion Under Trees
Wang Meng
Chinese painter
Admonitions of the Court Instructress
Gu Kaizhi
Chinese painter
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Tokiwa Mitsunaga
Japanese painter
Voyage to the South, detail of a handscroll by Tang Yin, 1505; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Tang Yin
Chinese painter
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Tosa Mitsunobu
Japanese painter
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Toba Sōjō
Japanese artist and priest
Hishikawa Moronobu: Scene in the Yoshiwara
Hishikawa Moronobu
Japanese printmaker
Huang Gongwang: Dwelling in the Fu-ch'un Mountains
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Chinese painter
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Yan Liben
Chinese painter
Autumn in a River Valley, silk scroll in ink and colour by Guo Xi; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Guo Xi
Chinese painter
Wu Zhen: Fisherman
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Yi Chŏng
Korean painter
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Cho Sok
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