name:standing Buddha

date:c. 2nd-3rd century CE

location: Gandhara, pakistan. / Lahore Museum, Lahore

name: Standing Buddha

date: Gupta period, 474 CE

location: Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, India. / ARchaeological Museum, Sarnath

name: Kandariya Mahadeva temple, Khajuraho

date: Chandella dynasty, c. 1000 CE

location: Madhaya Pradesh, India

name: Rajarajeshvara Temple to Shiva, Thanjavur

date:Chola dynasty, 1003-10 CE

location: Tamil Nadu, India

name:Shiva Nataraja

date: Chola dynasty, 12th century CE

location: Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. / National Museum of India, New Delhi

name:Soldiers

date:Qin dynasty, c. 210 BCE

location: From the mausoleum of Emperor Shihuangdi, Lintong, Shaanxi

name: Detail from a rubbing of a stone relief in the Wu family shrine (Wuliangci)

date: Han dynasty, 151 CE

location: Jiaxiang, Shandong

name: Detail of Admonitions of the Imperial Instructress to Court Ladies

date: Six Dynasties period

location: The British Museum, London

name: Portion of a letter from the Feng Ju almbum

date: Six Dynasties period, mid 4th century CE

location: National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

name: Seated Guanyin Bodhisattva

date: Liao dynasty, 10th- 12th century CE

location: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Purchase, Nelson Trust (34-10)

name: Travelers Among Mountains and Streams

date: Northern Song dynasty, early 11th century CE

location: National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

name: Seated Shakyamuni Buddha with hands in bhumisparsha mudra (the earth-toughing gesture symbolizing his enlightenment)

date: Unified Silla period, c. 751

location: Seokguram Grotto, main Buddha. Korean. Near Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang province

name: Maebyeong bottle with decoration of bamboo and blossoming plum tree

date: Goryeo dynasty, late 12th-early 13th century

location: Korean. / Tokyo National museum, Tokyo, Japan

name: Album leaf from the Ishiyama-gire

date: Heian period, early 12th century CE

location: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institiution, Washington, D.C. (F1969.4)

name: Dogu

date:Jomon period, c. 2500-1500 BCE 

location: Kurokoma, Yamanashi Prefecture. / Tokyo National Museum

name: Main hall, inner shrine, Ise

date: Yayoi period, early 1st century CD. Last rebuilt 1993

location: Mie Prefecture

name: Aerial View of Horyu-ji compound

date: Asuka period, 7th century CE

location: Nara Prefecture. / Photo: Orion Press, Tokyo

name: Hungry Tigress Jataka

date: Asuka period, c. 650 CE 

location: Panel of the Tamamushi, Shrine, Horyu-ji. / Horyu-ji Treasure House

name: Phoenix Hall, Byodo-in, Uji

date: Heian period, c. 1053 CE

location: Kyoto Prefecture

name: Scene From The Tale of Genji

date: Heian period, 12th century CE

location: Tokugawa Art Museum, Nagoya