Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. Of these objects, 749 of them 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. They are frequently revised and enhanced.

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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 third month: The Doll Festival (弥生雛祭 Yayoi: Hina matsuri), Edo Period

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

The Fifth Month: Flower Arranging Contest (Satsuki Ikebana awase), 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 (Japanese 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 Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Votive Tablet with Masks of Kabuki Actors taken at Face Value (当ル奉納願お賀久面について Ataru hōnō negai o gakumen ni tsuite)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Votive Tablet with Masks of Kabuki Actors taken at Face Value (当ル奉納願お賀久面について Ataru hōnō negai o gakumen ni tsuite)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Sparrow and Spider (Suzume to Kumo), Edo Period

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)