Japanese Art
Museums
See also: Ethnic and Regional
Museums and Exhibits
Netsuke: Japanese Art in Miniature
An introduction to netsuke and their use in traditional Japanese clothing from the Fitzwilliam Museum. Also includes an online presentation of around 250 images from the museum's collection featuring netsuke from the 17th to the 20th century categorized by subject including myths and legends, masks, animals, daily life, and materials.
Worcester Art Museum: Japanese Art
View around 16 examples of Japanese paintings and sculpture ranging in date from the early 10th century up to 1810 from the collections of the Worcester Art Museum.
Japanese American National Museum
Features an online collection with selected highlights from the permanent collection of more than 60,000 artifacts, documents, and photographs.
The Virtual Museum of Japanese Arts
Museum of traditional Japanese arts, includes fine arts, crafts, performing arts, martial arts, and more.
Tokyo National Museum
Art objects, historical documents, and archaeological objects of Japan as well as East Asia and other parts of Asia.
Kyoto National Museum
Ceramics, sculpture, paintings, calligraphy, metalwork, more. The masterworks section contains both good enlargements and good explanatory text.
Asia Society
Virtual exhibition of more than 25 objects in the collection.
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Japanese collection of over 11,000 objects ranging from 2,500 B.C.E. to present, primarily 8th -19th century.
The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance
An exhibition from the Library of Congress that includes early masters from the 17th to the 19th centuries as well as related works from both Japanese and Western artists of the 20th century.
On the Cutting Edge: Contemporary Japanese Prints
An online exhibition from the Library of Congress featuring contemporary Japanese prints from the College Women's Association of Japan.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Japanese Prints
Japanese Art in the 20th Century
Japanese Screens
Japanese Paintings
MFA: Under the Skin: Tattoos in Japanese Prints
A Museum of Fine Arts, Boston presentation of a selection of prints that explore the iconography, social background, and visual wonder of mid 19th century Japanese tattoo art.
LACMA: Japanese Art
Explore works in the collection in these online exhibitions.
Japanese Prints: Edo/Tokyo
Faces of Battle: Japanese Prints from the Permanent Collection
Japanese Prints: Word/ Poem/ Picture
Netsuke of the Meiji Period 1868 - 1912: Carvings in Transition
Netsuke - Urban Life
Japanese Cultural Relics
A virtual exhibition featuring selections from the museum's collection including paintings, books, sculpture, furniture and more, presented by The Palace Museum, Beijing.
Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
An online exhibition from the Brooklyn Museum, includes 118 woodblock prints featuring mid-nineteenth-century landscapes and genre scenes of Tokyo.
Sackler Gallery: Dream Worlds
View images of modern Japanese prints and paintings from the Robert O. Muller Collection.
Resources
WebMuseum: Japanese Art and Architecture
Works of art produced in Japan from around the 10th millennium BC, to the present.
Viewing Japanese Prints
A collection of illustrated essays on traditional and modern Japanese woodblock prints, topics include techniques, designs, and artists.
Art History Resources on the Web
List of links to Japanese art resources on the web.
Japanese Art and Western influence
Objects of Japanese art and craft that were made with influence of Western culture.
Michi Online
Magazine, links, and resources for everyone interested in Japanese arts, culture, and meditation, from aikido to Zen.
Ukiyo-e
Pictures of the floating world, several galleries, a FAQ and extensive links.
Wikipedia: Japanese Art
Includes the history of Japanese art, performing arts, artists and more.
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