List of collections of Japanese art

Japanese art is collected by museums, galleries and private collectors in many countries around the world.

Country City Institution Collection size Notes Official web site Ref.
Australia Australia Sydney Art Gallery of New South Wales 1,561 [1]
Canada Canada Ontario Royal Ontario Museum 10,000 Most items are from Edo period [2]
Germany Germany Neuss Langen Foundation 350 [3]
Israel Israel Haifa Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art 8,500 17th to 19th century [4]
Japan Japan Kitakyushu Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art 7,500 [5] [1]
Japan Japan Kyoto Kyoto National Museum 8,000+ Art, archaeology, Buddhist art, and history [6] [1], [2]
Japan Japan Nagoya Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art 1,000 [7] [1]
Japan Japan Nagoya Nagoya City Museum [8] [1]
Japan Japan Nara Nara National Museum 1,200 Art, archaeology, Buddhist art, and history [9] [1]
Japan Japan Osaka Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka Ceramics and pottery [10] [1]
Japan Japan Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [11] [1]
Japan Japan Tokyo Suntory Museum of Art [12] [1]
Japan Japan Tokyo Tokyo National Museum Art, archaeology and history [13] [1]
Japan Japan Tokyo Yamatane Museum 1,800 [14]
Japan Japan Osaka National Museum of Art, Osaka 8,200 (As of February 2022) Modern art [3]
Japan Japan Tokyo Sumida Hokusai Museum Ukiyoe prints; P. Morse collection, M. Narashige collection[4] [5] [6]
Poland Poland Kraków Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology [15]
United Kingdom United Kingdom London British Museum [16]
United Kingdom United Kingdom London Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art 1,600 Decorative arts of the Meiji era [17]
United Kingdom United Kingdom London Victoria and Albert Museum 30,000+ Mostly from Edo and Meiji periods [18]
United Kingdom United Kingdom Maidstone Maidstone Museum 4,000 Edo and Meiji-period decorative arts [19] [7]
United Kingdom United Kingdom Oxford Ashmolean Museum [20]
United States USA Feinberg Collection 300
United States USA Manyo'an Collection of Japanese Art Hosted by the Gitter-Yelen Art Study Center [21]
United States USA Bartlesville, Oklahoma Price Collection Arts of the Edo period [22]
United States USA Boston Museum of Fine Arts includes the Leonard A. Lauder collection of more than 20,000 postcards [23]
United States USA Cleveland Cleveland Museum of Art 1,950 [24] [8]
United States USA Eugene, Oregon Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 3,000+ Mainly Edo period prints [25]
United States USA Los Angeles Pavilion for Japanese Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art [26]
United States USA Newark, New Jersey The Newark Museum of Art 7,000 Concentrated in Edo, Meiji and Showa periods [27]
United States USA New York Ronin Gallery 17th – 21st century woodblock prints [28]
United States USA New York Metropolitan Museum of Art 17,000 [29]
United States USA Washington, D.C. Library of Congress 2,500 Woodblock prints and drawings, 17th to 20th centuries [30]
United States USA Washington, D.C. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler) [31]

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Buckland, Rosina (January 2001). "Information on Collections of Japanese Art". www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  2. ^ "Kyoto National Museum On Line Database". syuweb.kyohaku.go.jp. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  3. ^ "Home". The National Museum of Art Osaka.
  4. ^ "すみだ北斎美術館を支えるコレクター ピーター・モースと楢崎宗重 二大コレクション 写真特集:時事ドットコム" [Two core collections on display - endorsed by Peter Morse and Muneshige Narashige at the Sumida Hokusai Museum — Photo special]. 時事ドットコム (in Japanese). Jiji Press. 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  5. ^ "top > Sumida Hokusai Museum". hokusai-museum.jp. すみだ北斎美術館. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  6. ^ "図書室のご案内 [Our Library]". すみだ北斎美術館. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  7. ^ "Japanese Decorative Art & Prints | Collections". Maidstone Museum. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  8. ^ "Japanese Art". Cleveland Museum of Art. Retrieved 2020-04-28.