Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 748 of these objects 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. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Kobayashi Kiyochika

Our field artillery attacks the enemy camp at Jiuliancheng, Meiji

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Two pages from an artist's sketchbook, Meiji

Hasegawa Tōun

Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers with Chinese and Japanese Poems, Edo Period

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Water Jar, Edo Period

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Quail and poppies (Keshi ni uzura), Edo (Japanese period)

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Unfinished Textile-Printing Stencil (kumo katagami)

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Hip-Length Robe Worn over a Kimono (Ise katagami Haori)

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Short Robe Worn under a Kimono (Hanjuban)

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Wine cup (Sakazuki) with Design of Sparrows

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Wine Cup (Sakazuki) with Japanese Imperial Crest

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Wine cup (Sakazuki) with Design of Willow and Birds

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Wine Cup (Sakazuki) with Design of a Stand and Flowering Plum

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Suit of Armor

Kusakabe Kimbei

Sumo Wrestlers

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Illustrated Life of a Monk

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

An album of the complete set of the series Pictures of famous places of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido (Gojusan Meisho Zue) (Tokaido Gojusan tsugi meisho zue hitosoroi (gojugo mai)), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Yoshitora 歌川芳虎

Russia (Oroshia)

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭

Doll on a Stand, Edo Period

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Nakahara (reclaimed fields) Sagami Province (Soshu Nakahara), Edo (Japanese period)

Woodblock print of several partially-nude figures standing beneath a waterfall amongst the clouds and descending from a hill with trees.

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Rōben Falls at Mount Ōyama Sagami Province (相州大山ろうべんの滝 Sōshū Ōyama Rōben no taki), Edo (Japanese period)