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Asian Art

Edo & Parallel Courts

1600–1868

Edo Art

Katsushika Hokusai

Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji , c. 1830–1832

Edo Art

Utagawa Hiroshige

Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō , c. 1833–1834

Edo Art

Ogata Kōrin

Rinpa screens (Irises, Red and White Plum Blossoms) , c. 1701–1710

Joseon Art

Jeong Seon

True-view landscapes of Korea , c. 1730–1750

The plate shows another work by this artist; the listed work is still in copyright.

Late Ming–Qing Transition Arts

Bada Shanren (Zhu Da)

Expressive bird-and-flower painting , c. 1690–1705

The plate shows another work by this artist; the listed work is still in copyright.

Late Ming–Qing Transition Arts

Shitao

Theoretical and experimental landscape painting , c. 1690–1707

The plate shows another work by this artist; the listed work is still in copyright.

Edo. Active 1760–1849.

Edo. Active 1797–1858.

Kyoto / Edo. Active 1658–1716.

Joseon Korea. Active 1676–1759.

China. Active c. 1626–1705.

China. Active 1642–1707.

Edo Art Joseon Art Late Ming–Qing Transition Arts

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Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai — Public domain Wikimedia Commons

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Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō by Utagawa Hiroshige — Public domain (Met isPublicDomain=true) Wikimedia Commons

Public domain (Met isPublicDomain=true) Wikimedia Commons

Rinpa screens (Irises, Red and White Plum Blossoms) by Ogata Kōrin — Public domain (Met isPublicDomain=true) Wikimedia Commons

Public domain Wikimedia Commons

True-view landscapes of Korea by Jeong Seon — Public domain Wikimedia Commons

Public domain Wikimedia Commons

Expressive bird-and-flower painting by Bada Shanren (Zhu Da) — Public domain Wikimedia Commons

Public domain Wikimedia Commons

Theoretical and experimental landscape painting by Shitao — Public domain Wikimedia Commons

World Art Timeline surveys 4 traditions, 26 major periods and 95 sub‑periods from 3500 BCE–Present, with 202 figures. Summaries are paraphrased from Wikipedia, not reproduced verbatim.

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