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. |
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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 | SumidaHokusai 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 | ||||
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 | 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) |
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