Buddhist paintings

2nd century BCE to 1st century CE Buddhist cave monuments located in Maharashtra, India

caves in Dunhuang City, Gansu, China

thumb|Buddha Vairocana, the “Resplendent One”. Pigments on cloth, 14th century thumb|Thangka depicting Vajrabhairava, c. 1740 thumb|A large thangka hung on a Thangka wall|special wall at [[Gyantse in Tibet in 1938]]

series of short poems and drawings used in the Zen tradition

thumb|300px|Panel from the first scroll, a monkey thief runs from animals with long sticks thumb|300px|Panel from the 3rd scroll, picturing two people jokingly playing tug-a-war with their heads thumb|300px|Fragment from the fourth scroll, a man gets defeated in a wrestling match. Separated from the original at some point. Miho Museum thumb|300px|Panel from the fourth scroll, samurai listen to their leader speak carefully

anonymous painting

set of five handing scrolls held at the Nara National Museum

thumb|upright=1.25|A Japanese family collaborating in producing Ōtsu-e Ōtsu-e (, "pictures from Ōtsu") was a folk art that began in 17th century Japan and depended on the busy road traffic of the trade route through the district where it was produced in Ōtsu, near Kyoto. With the coming of railways, especially of the Tōkaidō line in the late 19th century, it largely disappeared.

emakimono painted in the second half of the 12th century

Yuan Dynasty wall painting by Zhu Haogu