Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,137 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,605 of them are available online. There are 2,180 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉

Chrysanthemums, Edo (Japanese period)

Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉

Kingfisher and Bamboo , Edo Period

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Hawk on Pine (Matsu ni taka), Edo (Japanese period)

Kitao Masayoshi 北尾政美

Quail (Chikukei), Edo (Japanese period)

Kitao Masayoshi 北尾政美

Wagtail (Sekirei), Edo (Japanese period)

Kitao Masayoshi 北尾政美

Wagtail (鶺鴒 Sekirei), Edo Period

Kitao Masayoshi 北尾政美

(Eurasian) Jay (Yokin), Edo Period

Woodblock print featuring a beetle climbing onto a vibrant yellow ear of corn, a smaller one on the muted green leaves, and a spider perched on the brown husk.

Mori Shunkei 森春渓

Corn Spiders, and Beetle, Edo Period

Toyohara Kunichika

Actors in the play Benkei in the Boat (Funa Benkei): Ichikawa Sadanji (Benkei); Ichikawa Ebizo VIII (Minamoto Yoshitsune) Nakamura Shikan IV (Funaosa Mihodayu) and Ichikawa Danjurō IX (Taira Tomomori, Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

The Seventh Month: Waiting for the Moon (Fumizuki: Nijurokuya machi), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

The Twelfth Month: Making Mochi Cakes (Shiwasu: Mochitsuki), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

The Ninth Month: Chrysanthemum (?; character illegible) Party in the Ninth Month (Choyo: Kiku (?) no tsuki utage), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

The Fourth Month: The first cuckoo (Uzuki: Hatsu hototogisu), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

The tenth month (Indian summer): First snow (Koharu: hatsuyuki), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

The Eleventh Month: The Cock's Fair (Shimotsuki: Tori no machi), Edo Period

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Minamoto no Yoritomo: offering at the Great Buddha (Minamoto Yoritomo Daibutsu kuyō no zu), Edo (Japanese period)

Ogata Gekkō

The First Army Advancing on Fengtienfu (Daiichigun hōtenfu shingeki no zu), Meiji

Katsukawa Shuntei

River Battle (Kassen), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

High pitch (Uwachoshi), 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)