Home Art Collection Works Collection Search Advanced search Works originating in Japan (1,515) works on display (65) works with images (1,011) Filter by: Collection area Origin Media Date/period Artist A–Z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ... 22 23 24 25 26 Sort by: artist surname oldest first (excludes undated works) newest first (excludes undated works) title image availability accession number Japan Merrymaking in the Yoshiwara mid 17th century 41.1986 Japan Preparatory sketch for composition for pair of six-panel screens 1719 36.1981 Japan The tale of the Loyal Retainers 1847 224.1992 Japan Sumô poster (list of wrestlers) 1908 225.1992 Japan Kabuki broadsheet fora face showing (kaomise) circa 1856-1864 226.1992 Japan Sake cup washer 19th century-20th century 9953.43 Japan Tenmoku cup stand 19th century-20th century 9953.42 Japan Sword guard ('tsuba') with design of bat and cobweb 19th century 434.1996 Japan tsuba (with pierced quatrefoil design) 19th century 435.1996 Japan tsuba (with paulownia and karakusa pattern design) 19th century 436.1996 Japan Quatrefoil-shaped sword guard ('tsuba') with design of landscape with castle, pine tree, mill and bridge 19th century 437.1996 Japan fuchi (with design of warrior in sea battle) 19th century 419.1996 Japan fuchi (with design of crane and tortoise) 19th century 420.1996 Japan fuchi (with design of man holding a lantern and umbrella) 19th century 422.1996 Japan fuchi (decorated with scroll blind in the wind and ivy) 19th century 423.1996 Japan fuchi (design of plum blossoms, lattices and house) 19th century 424.1996 Japan kashira (with design of warrior on horseback) 19th century 425.1996 Japan kashira (with design of fir trees and bird in flight) 19th century 426.1996 Japan Kashira (with design of Hotei) 19th century 427.1996 Japan Menuki (in the shape of armour sleeve and strings) 19th century 428.1996 Japan Towel stand with design of peacock feather pattern 18th century-19th century 645.1994 Japan tsuba (with pierced design of old man and his young attendant in a landscape with a plum tree, waterfall and a crane in flight) 19th century 431.1996 Japan Tsuba (with pierced design of boy with scroll) 19th century 432.1996 Japan tsuba (with design of old man) 19th century 438.1996 Japan Four-case 'inrô' decorated with a traveller in a landscape theme with chrysanthemum decorated metal 'ojime' attached 1615-1867 127.1995.a-f Japan Three-case 'inrô' decorated with coxcomb and autumn grasses 19th century 128.1995.a-d Japan Four-case 'inrô' decorated with pavillion and huts by a lake with 'ojime' and 'manjû' attached 19th century 129.1995.a-g Japan 'Yatate' (moveable writing set) late 18th century 277.1997.a-c Japan Tea caddy 19th century 599.1993.a-b Japan Sword ('katana') 19th century 441.1996.a-b Japan Wakizashi 19th century 442.1996.a-i Japan tsuba (with pierced net design) 19th century 439.1996 Japan Sword guard ('tsuba') with openwork design of man reading and a bull 19th century 440.1996 Japan Vase decorated with a pair of dragons in high relief 18th century 135.2003 Japan Netsuke in the form of Daruma with a fly whisk, wearing a towel round his head 19th century 33.2002 Japan Netsuke in the form of two dragon heads encircling a bell 19th century 20.2002 Japan 'Manju hako' netsuke in two parts carved in 'shishiaibori' with thunder god 19th century 21.2002.a-b Japan Uji bridge under the willows 17th century 322.2005.a-b Japan (Portrait of poet lio Sōgi) 18th century 341.2001 Image not available Japan (Gold and silver mines in Sado Island) 18th century 342.2001 Image not available Japan Buddhist image [lower half] early 19th century 222.2002 Japan 'Karaori' nō robe with design of flowers of the four seasons on sectioned red-and-white background 19th century 321.2002 Japan 'Manju' netsuke of woodcutter and woman, with multiple silver chains [which originally would have attached it to a tobacco pouch] 19th century 22.2002 Japan Netsuke in the form of a running boar 19th century 28.2002 Japan 'Manju' box netsuke with design of peony and lion 19th century 24.2002 Japan Netsuke in the form of a monkey dressed as a court noble 19th century 23.2002 Japan Netsuke in the form of two clam shells 19th century 25.2002 On display – South Building, lower level 1, Asian Lantern galleries Japan Netsuke in the form of mushrooms 19th century 26.2002 Japan Netsuke in the form of Chôkarô 'sennin' carrying a gourd 19th century 29.2002 Japan Netsuke in the form of beans 19th century 27.2002 Japan Netsuke in the form of Gama 'sennin' with a toad 19th century 30.2002 Japan Netsuke in the form of 'Kumosuke' (Tôkaidô porter) 19th century 31.2002 Japan Netsuke in the form of a mushroom with 'okame' leaning against it and 'oni' crouching under it 19th century 32.2002 Japan Netsuke in the form of a Kirin 19th century 34.2002 Japan Netsuke in the form of a cucumber with wasp 19th century 35.2002 Japan Netsuke in the form of a 'sennin' holding a staff 19th century 36.2002 Japan Netsuke in the form of a Dutchman with a hat, holding a horn 19th century 37.2002 Japan Netsuke in the form of 'Ashinaga' ('the long legs') carrying 'tenaga' ('the long arms') who is holding an octopus 19th century 38.2002 Japan Netsuke in the form of Hotei (?) carrying a child on his shoulders 19th century 39.2002 Japan Netsuke in the form of a fox disguised as a woman dancing 19th century 40.2002 On display – South Building, lower level 1, Asian Lantern galleries 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ... 22 23 24 25 26