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	Sydney	Art Gallery of New South Wales	1,561
Canada	Ontario	Royal Ontario Museum	10,000	Most items are from Edo period
Germany	Neuss	Langen Foundation	350
Israel	Haifa	Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art	8,500	17th to 19th century
Japan	Kitakyushu	Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art	7,500			[1]
Japan	Kyoto	Kyoto National Museum	8,000+	Art, archaeology, Buddhist art, and history		[1] [2]
Japan	Nagoya	Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art	1,000			[1]
Japan	Nagoya	Nagoya City Museum				[1]
Japan	Nara	Nara National Museum	1,200	Art, archaeology, Buddhist art, and history		[1]
Japan	Osaka	Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka		Ceramics and pottery		[1]
Japan	Tokyo	National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo				[1]
Japan	Tokyo	Suntory Museum of Art				[1]
Japan	Tokyo	Tokyo National Museum		Art, archaeology and history		[1]
Japan	Tokyo	Yamatane Museum	1,800
Japan	Osaka	National Museum of Art, Osaka	8,200 (As of February 2022 [update] )	Modern art	[3]
Japan	Tokyo	Sumida Hokusai Museum		Ukiyoe prints; P. Morse collection, M. Narashige collection [4]	[5]	[6]
Poland	Kraków	Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology
United Kingdom	London	British Museum	c.26,000
United Kingdom	London	Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art	1,600	Decorative arts of the Meiji era
United Kingdom	London	Victoria and Albert Museum	30,000+	Mostly from Edo and Meiji periods
United Kingdom	Maidstone	Maidstone Museum	4,000	Edo and Meiji-period decorative arts		[7]
United Kingdom	Oxford	Ashmolean Museum
USA		Feinberg Collection	300
USA		Manyo'an Collection of Japanese Art		Hosted by the Gitter-Yelen Art Study Center
USA	Bartlesville, Oklahoma	Price Collection		Arts of the Edo period
USA	Boston	Museum of Fine Arts	c.100,000	Largest collection outside Japan, includes the Leonard A. Lauder collection of more than 20,000 postcards
USA	Cleveland	Cleveland Museum of Art	1,950			[8]
USA	Eugene, Oregon	Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art	3,000+	Mainly Edo period prints
USA	Los Angeles	Pavilion for Japanese Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
USA	Newark, New Jersey	The Newark Museum of Art	7,000	Concentrated in Edo, Meiji and Showa periods
USA	New York	Ronin Gallery		17th – 21st century woodblock prints
USA	New York	Metropolitan Museum of Art	17,000
USA	Washington, D.C.	Library of Congress	2,500	Woodblock prints and drawings, 17th to 20th centuries
USA	Washington, D.C.	National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)

See also

• List of museums of Asian art
• List of museums

References

1. 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]. Jiji Press (in Japanese). 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
5. "top > Sumida Hokusai Museum". Hokusai Museumすみだ北斎美術館. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
6. 図書室のご案内 [Our Library]. Sumida Hokusai Museum. 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.