Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. Of these objects, 748 of them are on view in the museum now. 84,693 of them are available online. There are 1,596 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. They are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Kitao Shigemasa 北尾重政

Chapter 7 of the 11 chapters of Chushingura (The treasury of loyal retainers) (Chushingura shichidanme junimaizoku), Edo (Japanese period)

Ishikawa Toyomasa

The sixth month Year of the Dragon (Junishi tatsu minazuki), Edo (Japanese period)

Katsukawa Shunshō

Nakamura Nakazo in court cap (eboshi) (Shodai Nakamura Nakazo), Edo (Japanese period)

Katsukawa Shunshō

The actor Nakamura Tomijuro in a female role (Nakamura Tomijuro), Edo (Japanese period)

Katsukawa Shunkō

The actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in a female role (yondai Iwai Hanshiro), Edo (Japanese period)

Katsukawa Shunkō

Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Benten ( Osagawa tsuneyo nidai benten), Edo (Japanese period)

Katsukawa Shunkō

Onoe Matsusuke I Wringing a Cloth (Onoe Matsusuke), Edo (Japanese period)

Kitao Masanobu

The actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Enya Hangan in Chushingura (Enya Hangan Ichikawa Danjuro godai), Edo (Japanese period)

Torii Kiyonaga

Kintaro riding a bear (Kintaro), Edo (Japanese period)

Katsukawa Shuncho

Courtesan Shitzuka and her shinzo Hanano and Enoki of the Tamaya (Tamayanai shitusuke Hanano Enoki), Edo (Japanese period)
Japanese print of a woman sitting next to pens and ink, an oval mirror, and a drawing of themselves. The figure is wearing a white robe with blue flowers throughout.

Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之

The daughter of Taira no Kiyomori using a mirror to draw her self-portrait to send to her mother (清盛息女の画　自像を写母に之に送図　Kiyomori sokujo no ga jizo o utsushi haha ni kore o okuru zu), Edo Period
Japanese print of a woman, wearing a tree-like headpiece and a floor-length orange robe with wheel and flower motifs, looking down at the yellow smoke that surrounds her top half.

Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之

A Triptych of Fashionable Disguises: The Third Princess (略三幅対 女三之宮 Yatsushi sanpukutsui: Nyosan no Miya), Edo Period

Yokoyama Taiken

The sixth hour (Hour of the snake); Visiting a shrine on the behalf of someone else (Mi no koku: daisan), Edo Period