Arhat (Chinese: luohan), dated 1180. China; Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Marble. The Avery Brundage Collection, B60S208.
Refined Character Type: Arjuna, third of the Pandava (Pandawa) brothers, approx. 1950. Indonesia; West Java. Wood, cloth, and mixed media. From The Mimi and John Herbert Collection, F2000.86.115.
Arrival of a Portuguese ship, one of a pair (Nanban screens), Six panel folding screen, 1620-1640. Japan. Ink, colors, and gold on paper, The Avery Brundage Collection, B60D77+.
Base for a water pipe, 1650–1700. India; Bidar, Karnataka state. Zinc alloy with silver and brass inlay. Courtesy of Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Gift of Marjorie Bissinger, B86M11. Photograph © Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
This scene illustrates an episode from the chapter, “The End of the Life of Kiso Yoshinaka,” in The Tale of the Heike, a thirteenth-century recounting of the wars between two powerful clans, the Heike and the Genji (also called the Taira and the Minamoto). By the time this painting was made, important episodes from The Tale of the Heike such as this one were widely familiar and had become popular subjects for paintings.
Battle scene from the epic Mahabharata (The Great Chronicle of the Bharata Dynasty), 1875–1900. Indonesia; Kamasan, Bali. Ink and colors on cotton. Gift of Dr. Stephen A. Sherwin and Merrill Randol Sherwin, 2004.96.
Battles at Ichi-no-tani Mountain and Yashima, from Tale of the Heike, approx. 1650–1700. Japan. Edo period (1615–1868). Six-panel screen, ink and colors on gold. The Avery Brundage Collection, B63D8+.
Beauty under the cherries at Ryodaishi Hall, probably Ando Hiroshige III (Japanese, 1843-1894), approx. 1870-1894. Hanging scroll; ink and colors on paper. Gift of Jim Myers, 2006.36.
Bhima (Bima), second of the Pandava (Pandawa) brothers, approx. 1960. Indonesia; West Java. Wood, cloth, and mixed media. From the Mimi and John Herbert Collection, F2000.86.157.
Bird-headed ewer. China; Henan or Shaanxi province; Tang dynasty (618–906). Glazed earthenware. The Avery Brundage Collection, B60P214.
