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Set of twelve zodiac animals
China
8th century

Treasure Boat (Takara-bune) with Three Rats
Kubo Shunman
1816, year of the rat

Accoutrements for a Bride, from the Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1
Ryūryūkyo Shinsai
probably 1816 (Year of the Rat)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Maple Tree and Stream
Ogata Kōrin
18th–19th century

Zodiac Figure: Rat
China
18th century

Tomb Figure of Rat
China
13th century

Rat with Three Young
Japan
mid-19th century

Netsuke of Rat Eating
Japan
19th century

White Rat and Bundles of Cloth
Kubo Shunman
probably 1816

Seated Four-Armed Ganesha
India, Rajasthan, Bundi
ca. 1775

Netsuke Rat with Small Acorn
Japan
19th century

Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod
Japan
early 19th century

Netsuke of Rat on a Bale of Rice
Japan
mid-19th century

Netsuke of a Rat Curled into a Ball
Masanao
19th century

Daoist Priest with Zodiac Animal, Rat
China

Netsuke of Man who Misses Catching a Rat
Japan
19th century

Stories of a Fortunate Rat (Komochi nezumi hana no yamauba) 持子鼠花山姥
Akatsuki no Kanenari 暁鐘成
1827, January (Bunsei 10)

Mallet of Daikoku, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, and a Rat
Yashima Gakutei
probably 1828

Netsuke of Two Rats
Japan
second half of the 19th century

Netsuke of Three Rats
Nagahisa
first half of the 19th century

Rats on a Scholar’s Desk
Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪
ca. 1794–95

New Year Greeting Card for "Rat" Year
Yanagawa Shigenobu
1828

Rats and Gourd
Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎
ca. 1887

Rats and a Kabuki Actor in the Role of Nikki Danjō
Hokusai School
19th century

Case (Inrō) with Design of Rats Eating Rice beside New Year Arrangement with Mochi and Crayfish
Japan
19th century

Case (Inrō) with Design of Two Rats Eating Fish Head and Bones
Japan
19th century

Rat on a Fūchin, Ornament with a Design of Egoyomi (Pictorial Calendar)
Kubo Shunman
1816

Netsuke of Piece of Bamboo Containing a Rat (or Bat (?)
Japan
19th century

Feather-Brush and Doran (a Kind of Medicine Case) with a Netsuke of a Rat
Totoya Hokkei
probably 1816

Netsuke of Figure of Daikoku with a Rat on His Mallet
Japan
19th century

Kōrin Picture Album (Kōrin gafu) 光琳画譜
Nakamura Hōchū 中村芳中
after 1826 (reprinted posthumously)

Twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac
China
18th–19th century

Rat Snake (Hebi); Lizard or Skink (Tokage), from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)
Kitagawa Utamaro
1788

Emperor Enyū’s Outing to Funaokayama on the First Day of the Rat in the New Year
Reizei Tamechika
19th century

Knife Handle (Kozuka)
Japanese
16th century

Knife Handle (Kozuka)
Japanese
18th century

Knife Handle (Kozuka)
Japanese
ca. 1615–1868

Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Japanese
ca. 1615–1868

Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Japanese
ca. 1615–1868

Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Japanese
19th century

Ink cake with cyclical imagery
China
late 19th–early 20th century

A Radish Plant, Seed, and Flower
late 18th century

Knife Handle (Kozuka)
Gotō Mitsutaka (Enjō)
mid-18th century

Netsuke of Two Rats
Okatori
early 19th century

Netsuke of Two Rats
Ikkan
mid-19th century

Ruler
Korea
late 19th–early 20th century

Ruler
Korea
late 19th–early 20th century

Rats and a Lamp
Qi Baishi
1947

Netsuke of a Group of Rats Nestled in an Abalone Shell
Masamitsu
late 19th century

Netsuke of Rat Chewing on Acorn

Japan

18th century

Ichikawa Danjuro IV in the Role of the Monk Mongaku from the Play Hana-zumo Genji-biki
Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章
1775

Ichikawa Danjūrō VII as Arajishi Otokonosuke
Utagawa Kunisada
1829

“Hour of the Rat: Mistress,” from the series Women’s Daily Customs (Fuzoku bijin tokei)
Kitagawa Utamaro
1790

Seihō Album of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (Seihō jūnishi jō) 栖鳳画伯筆十二支帖
Takeuchi Seihō 竹内栖鳳
ca. 1905–6

Courtier and Two Ladies of the Court, with a Poem by Mibu no Tadamine
Rekisentei Eiri
ca. 1791

Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Japanese
19th century

Design for the Costume of Carabosse (Wicked Fairy Godmother), for the Ballet 'La Belle au Bois Dormant' (Sleeping Beauty)
Alexander Benois
1927

The Gods Are Ousted by an Army of Demons, folio from the unfinished Small Guler series of the Bhagavata Purana
Manaku
ca. 1740

The Poet Fujiwara Kiyotada, from the “Narikane Version” of Thirty-six Poetic Immortals
Unidentified artist
13th century

Water Coupe in the Shape of a Mouse
China
18th century

The Fury of Monk Raigō
Kobayashi Kiyochika
ca. 1900

Ganesha Transcribing the Mahabharata
India, West Bengal, Calcutta
1878–1883

Mouse Eating Lichee Fruit
Unidentified artist

Shri Shri Durga
India, West Bengal, Calcutta
ca. 1885–95

Sri Sri Durga
India, West Bengal, Calcutta
ca. 1875–80

"The Trapped Cat and the Frightened Mouse (Rat ?)", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
second quarter 16th century

Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things: Hokusai Sketchbooks, volume 8 (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, hachihen)
Katsushika Hokusai
1817

Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things: Hokusai Sketchbooks (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, gohen) 伝神開手北斎漫画五編: vol. 5
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎
1816

Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Japanese
ca. 1615–1868

Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Japanese
dated 1780

Cat
Wang Li

Sword Guard (Tsuba) with the Wrestling Frogs
Japanese
19th century

The Mogusa-uri Scene from the Drama "Chujo-hime Hibariyama," Performed at Yamamura-za
Okumura Masanobu
1710–13

Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)
Japanese
19th century

Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)
Japanese
mid-19th century

Courtier and Lady with a Young Woman Poling a Boat
Kubo Shunman
1796

Landscape with Waterfall
Tani Bunchō
1828

Snowy Landscape
Sakaki Hyakusen
1744

Odes of the State of Bin: The Seventh Month
Fei Qinghu (Fei Zhaoyang)
late 18th–early 19th century

Star Mandala
Japan
13th–14th century

Poems on painting plum blossoms and bamboo
Zhao Mengjian
dated 1260

Odes of the State of Bin
Ma Hezhi
mid-12th century