List of collections of Japanese art

Japanese art is collected by museums, galleries and private collectors in many countries around the world.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (April 2020)
Country City Institution Collection size Notes Official web site Ref.
Australia Australia Sydney Art Gallery of New South Wales 1,561 [1]
Canada Canada Ontario Royal Ontario Museum 10,000 Most items are from Edo period [2]
Germany Germany Neuss Langen Foundation 350 [3]
Israel Israel Haifa Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art 8,500 17th to 19th century [4]
Japan Japan Kitakyushu Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art 7,500 [5] [1]
Japan Japan Kyoto Kyoto National Museum 8,000+ Art, archaeology, Buddhist art, and history [6] [1], [2]
Japan Japan Nagoya Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art 1,000 [7] [1]
Japan Japan Nagoya Nagoya City Museum [8] [1]
Japan Japan Nara Nara National Museum 1,200 Art, archaeology, Buddhist art, and history [9] [1]
Japan Japan Osaka Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka Ceramics and pottery [10] [1]
Japan Japan Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [11] [1]
Japan Japan Tokyo Suntory Museum of Art [12] [1]
Japan Japan Tokyo Tokyo National Museum Art, archaeology and history [13] [1]
Japan Japan Tokyo Yamatane Museum 1,800 [14]
Japan Japan Osaka National Museum of Art, Osaka 8,200 (As of February 2022[update]) Modern art [3]
Japan Japan Tokyo Sumida Hokusai Museum Ukiyoe prints; P. Morse collection, M. Narashige collection[4] [5] [6]
Poland Poland Kraków Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology [15]
United Kingdom United Kingdom London British Museum [16]
United Kingdom United Kingdom London Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art 1,600 Decorative arts of the Meiji era [17]
United Kingdom United Kingdom London Victoria and Albert Museum 30,000+ Mostly from Edo and Meiji periods [18]
United Kingdom United Kingdom Maidstone Maidstone Museum 4,000 Edo and Meiji-period decorative arts [19] [7]
United Kingdom United Kingdom Oxford Ashmolean Museum [20]
United States USA Feinberg Collection 300
United States USA Manyo'an Collection of Japanese Art Hosted by the Gitter-Yelen Art Study Center [21]
United States USA Bartlesville, Oklahoma Price Collection Arts of the Edo period [22]
United States USA Boston Museum of Fine Arts includes the Leonard A. Lauder collection of more than 20,000 postcards [23]
United States USA Cleveland Cleveland Museum of Art 1,950 [24] [8]
United States USA Eugene, Oregon Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 3,000+ Mainly Edo period prints [25]
United States USA Los Angeles Pavilion for Japanese Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art [26]
United States USA Newark, New Jersey The Newark Museum of Art 7,000 Concentrated in Edo, Meiji and Showa periods [27]
United States USA New York Ronin Gallery 17th – 21st century woodblock prints [28]
United States USA New York Metropolitan Museum of Art 17,000 [29]
United States USA Washington, D.C. Library of Congress 2,500 Woodblock prints and drawings, 17th to 20th centuries [30]
United States USA Washington, D.C. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler) [31]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Buckland, Rosina (January 2001). "Information on Collections of Japanese Art". www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  2. ^ "Kyoto National Museum On Line Database". syuweb.kyohaku.go.jp. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  3. ^ "Home". The National Museum of Art Osaka.
  4. ^ "すみだ北斎美術館を支えるコレクター ピーター・モースと楢崎宗重 二大コレクション 写真特集:時事ドットコム" [Two core collections on display - endorsed by Peter Morse and Muneshige Narashige at the Sumida Hokusai Museum — Photo special]. 時事ドットコム (in Japanese). Jiji Press. 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  5. ^ "top > Sumida Hokusai Museum". hokusai-museum.jp. すみだ北斎美術館. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  6. ^ "図書室のご案内 [Our Library]". すみだ北斎美術館. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  7. ^ "Japanese Decorative Art & Prints | Collections". Maidstone Museum. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  8. ^ "Japanese Art". Cleveland Museum of Art. Retrieved 2020-04-28.