List of collections of Japanese art explained

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
Australia	Sydney	Art Gallery of New South Wales	1,561		https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/asian-art/east-asia/japan/
Canada	Ontario	Royal Ontario Museum	10,000	Most items are from Edo period	https://www.rom.on.ca/en/blog/japanese-art-collection-at-the-rom
Germany	Neuss	Langen Foundation	350		https://www.langenfoundation.de/en/collection/japanese-art/
Israel	Haifa	Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art	8,500	17th to 19th century	http://www.tmja.org.il/
Japan	Kitakyushu	Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art	7,500		http://kmma.jp/
Japan	Kyoto	Kyoto National Museum	8,000+	Art, archaeology, Buddhist art, and history	http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/	^[1], ^[2]
Japan	Nagoya	Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art	1,000		https://www-art.aac.pref.aichi.jp/en/index.html
Japan	Nagoya	Nagoya City Museum			http://www.ncm-jp.com/
Japan	Nara	Nara National Museum	1,200	Art, archaeology, Buddhist art, and history	http://www.narahaku.go.jp/
Japan	Osaka	Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka		Ceramics and pottery	http://www.moco.or.jp/
Japan	Tokyo	National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo			http://www.momat.go.jp/
Japan	Tokyo	Suntory Museum of Art			https://www.suntory.com/sma/
Japan	Tokyo	Tokyo National Museum		Art, archaeology and history	http://www.tnm.go.jp/
Japan	Tokyo	Yamatane Museum	1,800		http://www.yamatane-museum.jp/english/collection/index.html
Japan	Osaka	National Museum of Art, Osaka	8,200	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			http://www.manggha.krakow.pl/
United Kingdom	London	British Museum			https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/galleries/japan
United Kingdom	London	Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art	1,600	Decorative arts of the Meiji era	https://www.khalilicollections.org/
United Kingdom	London	Victoria and Albert Museum	30,000+	Mostly from Edo and Meiji periods	https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/japan
United Kingdom	Maidstone	Maidstone Museum	4,000	Edo and Meiji-period decorative arts	https://museum.maidstone.gov.uk/explore/collections/japanese-decorative-art-prints/	^[7]
United Kingdom	Oxford	Ashmolean Museum			https://www.ashmolean.org/japan
USA		Feinberg Collection	300
USA		Manyo'an Collection of Japanese Art		Hosted by the Gitter-Yelen Art Study Center	http://www.manyoancollection.org/
USA	Bartlesville, Oklahoma	Price Collection		Arts of the Edo period	https://pricecollection.blogspot.com/
USA	Boston	Museum of Fine Arts		includes the Leonard A. Lauder collection of more than 20,000 postcards	https://www.mfa.org/collections/asia
USA	Cleveland	Cleveland Museum of Art	1,950		https://www.clevelandart.org/art/departments/japanese-art	^[8]
USA	Eugene, Oregon	Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art	3,000+	Mainly Edo period prints	https://jsma.uoregon.edu/japanese
USA	Los Angeles	Pavilion for Japanese Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art			https://www.lacma.org/
USA	Newark, New Jersey	The Newark Museum of Art	7,000	Concentrated in Edo, Meiji and Showa periods	https://www.newarkmuseumart.org/japan
USA	New York	Ronin Gallery		17th – 21st century woodblock prints	https://www.roningallery.com/
USA	New York	Metropolitan Museum of Art	17,000		https://www.metmuseum.org/
USA	Washington, D.C.	Library of Congress	2,500	Woodblock prints and drawings, 17th to 20th centuries	https://www.loc.gov/collections/japanese-fine-prints-pre-1915/about-this-collection/
USA	Washington, D.C.	National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)			https://asia.si.edu/collections-area/japanese/

See also

• List of museums of Asian art
• List of museums

Notes and References

1. Web site: Information on Collections of Japanese Art. Buckland. Rosina. January 2001. www.columbia.edu. 2020-04-28.
2. Web site: Kyoto National Museum On Line Database . 2022-08-25 . syuweb.kyohaku.go.jp.
3. Web site: Home . The National Museum of Art Osaka.
4. Web site: 2017-02-02 . 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 . 2022-08-26 . 時事ドットコム . . ja.
5. Web site: top > Sumida Hokusai Museum . 2022-08-25 . hokusai-museum.jp . Japanese: すみだ北斎美術館.
6. Web site: 図書室のご案内 [Our Library] ]. 2022-08-25 . Japanese: すみだ北斎美術館|Sumida Hokusai Museum.
7. Web site: Japanese Decorative Art & Prints Collections. Maidstone Museum. en-US. 2020-04-28.
8. Web site: Japanese Art. Cleveland Museum of Art. 2020-04-28.