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

Yamada school (Yamada ryu), Edo (Japanese period)

Ochiai Yoshiiku

Evening snow at a boathouse (Ofunagura no bosetsu), Edo (Japanese period)

Vibrant three-part woodblock print of three women on a garden outing, framed by cherry blossoms. They wear floral-patterned robes and carry food boxes, drinking vessels, and a musical instrument.

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Enjoying Flowers in the Inner Garden (Oniwa hana no asobi), Edo (Japanese period)

A multicolor woodblock print of a blue-robed woman carrying a round black food box. The title is in the upper right.

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Outing to a flower garden (Oniwa hana no asobi), Edo (Japanese period)

A woodblock print of a woman in a long-sleeved robe. She carries a porcelain wine bowl with cups in one hand and a musical instrument in the other.

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Outing to a flower garden (Oniwa hana no asobi), Edo (Japanese period)

A woodblock print of a woman in a floral-patterned grey robe carrying a wooden sake cask.

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Outing to a flower garden (Oniwa hana no asobi), Edo (Japanese period)

Nishimura Shigenaga 西村重長

Bird and iris (Kakitsubata ni kotori), Meiji

Nishimura Shigenaga

Autumn moon Ishiyama Temple (Ishiyama shugetsu), Edo (Japanese period)

Ishikawa Toyonobu

The right panel of a triptych showing the courtesan Koito of the Itoya, Edo (Japanese period)

Unknown Maker, Japanese

The geisha Okura and Wakamurasaki, Edo (Japanese period)

Isoda Koryūsai 礒田湖龍斎

Parody of Sofu and Kyoyu (Sofu Kyoya), Edo (Japanese period)

Kitao Shigemasa 北尾重政

Chapter 7 of the 11 chapters of Chushingura (The treasury of loyal retainers) (Chushingura shichidanme junimaizoku), Edo (Japanese period)

Katsukawa Shunshō

The actor Ichikawa Danjurō V, Edo (Japanese period)

Katsukawa Shunkō

The actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in a female role (yondai Iwai Hanshiro), Edo (Japanese period)

Katsukawa Shuncho

Courtesan Shitzuka and her shinzo Hanano and Enoki of the Tamaya (Tamayanai shitusuke Hanano Enoki), Edo (Japanese period)

Japanese print of a woman, wearing a tree-like headpiece and a floor-length orange robe with wheel and flower motifs, looking down at the yellow smoke that surrounds her top half.

Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之

A Triptych of Fashionable Disguises: The Third Princess (略三幅対女三之宮 Yatsushi sanpukutsui: Nyosan no Miya), Edo Period

Yokoyama Taiken

The sixth hour (Hour of the snake); Visiting a shrine on the behalf of someone else (Mi no koku: daisan), Edo Period

Kitao Masayoshi 北尾政美

Chapter 8 from Perspective Pictures of the Syllabary Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Kanadehon Chushingura), Edo Period

Kikugawa Eizan 菊川英山

Peonies (Botan), Edo (Japanese period)

Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉

Landscape (Sansui), Edo (Japanese period)