Museums
Museums with major collections of Japanese Art
- Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture collection
- The collection includes Japanese screen and scroll paintings, sculptures, prints, ceramics, textiles, metalwork and woven bamboo art
- Objects created in the 10th century to the present - ColBase: Integrated Collections Database of the National Museums, Japan
Database combining the collections of the four National Museums of the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage (Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum and Kyushu National Museum) and the collections of the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties. Images are limited to works whose copyright protection period have expired for which digital images have been prepared. Recordings of data in languages other than Japanese are limited to a portion of the works. - Japanese Art-Cleveland Museum of Art
The collection comprises over 1,950 works spanning approximately 5,000 years and includes masterworks of painting, sculpture, and prints, as well as ceramics, metalwork, and other decorative arts. - Tokyo National Museum (TNM)
View and learn about 600 of the most important works in "TNM collections." The combined holdings of Japan's four major museums (The Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum, and the Kyushu National Museum) can be searched in
ColBase ( 28,000+ images). The e-Museum searches national treasures from the same group of museums.
Important East Asian Libraries
Useful for identifying relevant titles. Then search for those titles in OBIS, OhioLINK or request them via ILL (Interlibrary Loan).
- Library Catalog, Ingalls Library, Cleveland Museum of Art
The Ingall's library is one of the top five art libraries in the country. Search their library catalog with your research topic. Items can be used on site or requested via Interlibrary Loan. - Library Catalog, The Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
One of the finest Asian libraries in the United States, the Freer catalog includes titles acquired after 1987 as well as about one third of the collection acquired before that date. Part of the larger Smithsonian Libraries Catalog, you must "Limit" searches to the "Freer Sackler Gallery Library". - WorldCat, Dublin, Ohio
Catalog of the books, journals, etc. held by almost every public, research and academic library in North America, as well as some European libraries.
Museums with important East Asian collections
- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
One of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art. - British Museum Collections
The British museum's collections – among the largest and most comprehensive in the world – recall a time when their Empire controlled 24% of the world's land and 23% of its people. Although there are over two million records in the database it only covers about half of the collection. - Honolulu Museum of Art
Hawaii’s largest private presenter of visual arts programs, boasting a permanent collection of over 40,000 works of art from cultures around the world and perhaps most well known for its collection of Asian art, especially Japanese and Chinese works. - Los Angeles Country Museum of Art
A multi-building complex with collections from around the world. The Hammer Building houses the Chinese and Korean collections and the Pavilion for Japanese Art displays the Shin'enkan collection donated by Joe D. Price. - Masterworks of Chinese Art (Cleveland Museum of Art)
An excellent East Asian collection within an easy drive of Oberlin. Many objects are also on their website. The Chinese collection is renowned. - Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY
Search the collections of the largest museum in the United States. The Met's collections are encyclopedic and cover art worldwide. - Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The collection of Asian art represents 17 Asian cultures spanning nearly 5,000 years. - Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Chinese Art
One of the largest museums in the United States with an extensive collection of Chinese art and the largest museum collection of Japanese works under one roof in the world outside of Japan. - National Museum of Asian Art: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC these museums collect art from East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Islamic world, the ancient Neat East, and ancient Egypt. - The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
An encyclopedic museum with particular strength in Asian art. - Seattle Art Museum, Chinese Art
The Asian Art Museum in Seattle is a division of the Seattle Art Museum. They recently published a catalog for the Chinese Painting & Calligraphy portion of the collection.
