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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Pastoral wallpaper panel with diamond-shaped vignettes, each containing an idyllic, rural scene, bordered by verdant foliage against a faded aqua background.

Unknown Maker

Rustic Scenes Wallpaper

Kitagawa Tsukimaro

Magnolias and Butterfly, Edo Period

A composition of large blooming flowers in soft gradients of blue, orange, and yellow, set against lush foliage and framed within a rounded shape.

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Hibiscus (芙蓉 Fuyō), Edo Period

Tan wallpaper with repeating motifs of mythological statues standing on winged creatures with interlacing tails, and holding up colorful floral bouquets, which extend upwards to contain birds and landscape pendants.

Gilles-Paul Cauvet

Arabesque with Griffins Wallpaper

Tall panel of vintage wallpaper featuring a diagonal pattern of bucolic pastoral and architectural scenes amidst lush blue florals on a pale pink background.

Jean-Baptiste Réveillon

Les Ilets Champetres Wallpaper

Dinner scene with three figures dressed in ordinary peasant clothing and one figure clad in opulence and luxury set within a humble wooden and brick house.

Unknown Maker, French

Henri IV at the Table at the House of Michau (Henri IV á Table Chez Michau)

Tan, aged wallpaper with repeating motifs of multicolored flowers and leaves on brown jagged branches. Tiny, colorful butterflies and birds on branches repeat throughout.

Joseph Dufour

Wallpaper

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Yabu Lane at the Foot of Atago (Atagoshita yabukōji), Edo (Japanese period)

Elegant and botanical border design of floral swags hanging from wheat sheaves against a patterned sage green backdrop. Ornamental patterns line the bottom trim of the design.

Unknown Maker, French

Wallpaper Border

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Lifesized Dolls in the Inner Temple at Asakusa (浅草奥山　生人形 / Asakusa okuyama iki ningyō)

Utagawa Hiroshige II 二代目歌川広重

Kingfisher and water plants (Mizuaoi ni kawasemi), Edo Period

Thin vertical branches with small pink blossoms against a twilight blue sky and glowing moon. Interspersed between the branches is flowing calligraphy.

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Moon and Plum, Edo Period

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Nihonbashi (inscribed), Edo Period

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Bed of Awakening: Nocturnal Pillow Talks (Nezame no toko ikuyo no mutsugoto) volume 3

Aged print of two women sitting and looking out a stone arched window that is surrounded by leaves, against a blue background with text underneath reading “les filles se chappe”

Unknown Maker, French

The Escaped Ticket (Le Billet Echappé) Wallpaper

A large white egret with a puffed-out chest surrounded by tall, dark-green blades of grass beneath a gray sky. A block of calligraphy floats above to the left.

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Little Egret and Softstem Bulrush, Edo Period

Symmetrical, cream wallcovering featuring colorful floral bouquets, a woman holding two babies in stone, turquoise hanging embellishments, and a laying winged baby within a turquoise medallion and pink floral wreath.

Jean-Baptiste Réveillon

Arabesque with Griffins Wallpaper

Asaka Katsumi 浅香勝躬

Portrait of Tsurunoya as a Papier-mache Doll of a Gidayu Chanter, Edo Period

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Kingfisher Reeds, and East Asian Water Lily, Edo Period

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Gentoku Visits Kōmei in a Snowstorm (Gentoku fūsetsu ni Komei o otonau), Meiji