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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Unknown Maker, Japanese

Fukusa (gift cloth), Late Tokugawa Period

Morton Livingston Schamberg

Fruitbowl

Shun'yōsai Shunshi

Scrapbook album of Onoe Tamizô II of Osaka (nidai Onoe Tamizô) (1799-1886), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

High pitch (Uwachoshi), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Patrinia flower (Valerian) (Ominaeshi), Edo (Japanese period)

Torii Kiyotomo

Actor as a street vendor selling hand towels and scent pouches in the shapes of kimono sleeves (Sanogawa Ichimatsu?), Edo (Japanese period)

Bunpo

Oriole and begonia (Shukaido ni korai uguisu), Edo (Japanese period)

Katsukawa Shuncho

Courtesan and boy (Yujo to otoko no ko), Edo (Japanese period)

A polychrome woodblock print of seven women merry-making on a canopied boat. Some play music while others drink and enjoy the view.

Chōbunsai Eishi

Beauties Boating on the Sumida River, Edo (Japanese period)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Matsuchizan, Meiji

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Peony and phoenix (Botan ni hoo), Edo Period

Utagawa Toyohiro 歌川豊広

Flying Geese, Edo Period

Utagawa Toyohiro 歌川豊広

Mandarin ducks and reeds, Edo Period

Katsukawa Shunsen

Cranes pines and rising sun (Hinode to matsu to tsuru), Edo (Japanese period)

Niwa Tōkei

Nandina berries and wild roses in snow (Setchu nanten to yamabuki), Edo Period

Hasegawa Sadanobu II 二代長谷川貞信

Bird and yellow roses (Yamabuki ni kotori), Edo (Japanese period)

Renzan Takanobu

Ivy and old well (Furuido to tsuta), Edo Period

Shibata Zeshin

Peony blossom (Botan), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Hiroshige II 二代目歌川広重

Butterflies Landscape, and Flowers, from an untitled series of ishizuri-e harimaze-e, Edo Period

Mori Shunkei 森春渓

Camellia and narcissus (Tsubaki to suisen), Edo (Japanese period)