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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Nishimura Shigenaga

The actors Ichimura Takenojo as Kudo Suketsune and Sanjo Kantaro as the princess Tatsuhime in the play Hinazuru unagasu Soga performed at the Ichimura Theatre 1722.11, Edo (Japanese period)

Ishikawa Toyonobu

The left panel of a triptych showing the courtesan Yugiri of the Ogiya (OgiyaYugiri), Edo (Japanese period)

Ishikawa Toyonobu

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

Katsukawa Shunshō

Nakamura Nakazo in court cap (eboshi) (Shodai Nakamura Nakazo), Edo (Japanese period)

Katsukawa Shunshō

The actor Nakamura Tomijuro in a female role (Nakamura Tomijuro), Edo (Japanese period)

Kitao Masanobu

The actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Enya Hangan in Chushingura (Enya Hangan Ichikawa Danjuro godai), Edo (Japanese period)

Katsukawa Shuncho

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

Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之

The daughter of Taira no Kiyomori using a mirror to draw her self-portrait to send to her mother (清盛息女の画　自像を写母に之に送図　Kiyomori sokujo no ga jizo o utsushi haha ni kore o okuru zu), Edo Period

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

Kitao Masayoshi 北尾政美

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

Chōbunsai Eishi

Mitsuhama of the Hyogoya (Hyogoya Mitsuhama), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige)

Mimachi day in the first month Benten Shrine, Shinobazu (Shinobazu Benzaiten hatsumi [or tsuchinoto] no zu), Edo (Japanese period)