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