LibGuides: AHVC 231: Art of Japan: Object Collections & Image Libraries

Object Collections

United States

Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Art from Japan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Highlights of Japanese paintings and prints.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Japan
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Asian Art at LACMA
an extensive collection of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian art
Asian Art from Princeton University's Collection
objects from their museum's permanent collection
Freer Gallery of Art: Japanese Collection
The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery from the Smithsonian
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City
Morikami Museum and Japanese Garden
houses 5,000 Japanese art objects and artifacts, many available to view online
Japanese Prints
From Wesleyan University, this collection includes about 600 woodcuts.

Japan

Collection Catalogue of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
International contemporary art art, including visual art, music, the performing arts, and film.
e-Kokuho
Images of national treasures and important cultural properties owned by four national museums of the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage.
Integrated Collections Database of the National Museums, Japan
MOA Museum in Atami
Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka
specializes in research and exhibition on this history of Asian ceramics
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
15 masterpieces from the museum collection.
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
Tokyo National Museum
Union Catalogue of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

Europe

Austraila

Asia: Voice of the Shuttle
collection of links to sites on asian art and architecture
Asian Historical Architecture
survey of Asia's historical architecture heritage, with background information and visual tours
Calligraphy by Doshu Kanayama
online exhibition from The Ohio State University
Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture collection
Buddhist paintings and sculptures, Edo period (1615-1868) paintings, Nanga material, and more
East Asian Image Collections
These Lafayette College collections focus on Japan but include China, Korea, and Indonesia.
Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist & Asian Art
40 years of field documentation photography by two Ohio State University professors
Japanese Buddhist Statuary
There are 400+ deities in this dictionary, and 4,000+ photos of statuary from Kamakura, Nara, Kyoto, and elsewhere in Japan.