Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,138 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,761 of them are available online. There are 2,337 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Unknown Maker, Ancient

Seal Stone, Late Helladic

Kobayashi Eitaku

Selected designs by Sensai Eitaku: A picture book of miscellany: Vol. 2, Meiji

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Kimono Designs, Edo Period

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Shōno: Driving Rain (庄野　白雨 Shōno hakuu), Edo Period

Nakayama Sugakudo

Wren and winter peony (Misosazai fuyubotan), Edo (Japanese period)

Two figures in robed attire, the right gripping a sword, standing apart but gazing at each other in front of wooden railings.

Katsukawa Shunzan 勝川春山

The actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II as a woman and Matsumoto Koshiro IV as a samurai (nidai Osagawa Tsuneyo; yondai Matsumoto Koshiro), Edo Period

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Returning sails Yabase (Yabase kihan), Edo (Japanese period)

Nakayama Sugakudo

Shrike withered oak and winter camellias (Mozucho karekashiwa fuyutsubaki), Edo (Japanese period)

Nakamura Hōchū

Plovers and waves (Nami to chidori), Meiji

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

Scops owl bullfinches (Mimizuku uso), Edo (Japanese period)

Japanese print of a woman, wearing a white floral-patterned blue robe with an orange and white geometric hem, staring at a black-beaked white bird to the left of her.

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国

Parrot Komachi (あふむ小まち Ōmu Komachi), Edo Period

Kawanabe Kyōsai

Cherry branches, Edo Period

Utagawa Hiroshige II 二代目歌川広重

Small bird and ivy (Tsuta ni kotori), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Contemporary brocades of fashions at the imperial palace (Gosho moyo tosei nishiki), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Totsuka: Motomachi Fork (Totsuka motomachi betsudō), Edo (Japanese period)

Nakayama Sugakudo

Great tit on branch of flowering maple (Shijukara ikkoki no momiji kaerizaki no sakura), Edo (Japanese period)

Torii Kiyonaga 鳥居清長

The Boy's Festival Tango (端午 Tango), Edo Period

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Clearing weather after snow Kameyama (Kameyama yukibare), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Mino Promontory Bungo Province, Edo (Japanese period)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

Shells (Kaigara), Edo Period