Collection

The main building of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT) houses a collection of artworks that dates from the end of the 19th century to the present. As of the time of writing (December 2022), the extensive collection has more than 13,000 objects including paintings, prints, watercolors, drawings, sculptures (three-dimensional objects), photographs, videos, calligraphy, and related materials. While the collection is centered on modern Japanese art, the museum also collects contemporary artwork from overseas.

Introduction to the Collection MOMAT Collection

All Collections12,044

KAWASE, Hasui

Pagoda of the Hommonji Temple, Ikegami

1928

KAWASE, Hasui

The Sakuradamon Gate from Twenty Tokyo Scenes

1928

KAWASE, Hasui

Starry Night (Miyagima) from Scenes from Travels III

1928

KAWASE, Hasui

Kamezaki, Owari from Scenes from Travels III

1928

ODA, Kazuma

Puppet Show at the Bunrakuza Theater (O'shichi, the Greengrocer's Daughter)

1928

ODA, Kazuma

Bar Fledermaus from Ginza Series I

1928

ODA, Kazuma

Ginza Sembikiya Fruit Shop from Ginza Series I

1928

ODA, Kazuma

Twilight

1928

ODA, Kazuma

View of Kabukiza from Matsuya from Ginza Series I

1928

HASEKAWA, Toshiyuki

Cafe Paulista

1928

MATSUBAYASHI, Masaru

Landscape of Komoro

1928

SUZUKI, Ryozo

Forest in Clamart

c.1928

KINOSHITA, Yoshinori

Portrait

1928

KOSUGI, Hoan (Misei)

Story of Ramayana

1928

SHIMIZU, Toshi

Chinatown

1928

KOBAYASHI, Wasaku

Girl with a Doll

1928

KOBAYASHI, Wasaku

Landscape, Amalfi

1928

IHARA, Usaburo

Group in a Room

1928-29

YOSHIDA, Hiroshi

Mt. Hakubayari

1928

KOJIMA, Zenzaburo

Woman with a Mirror

1928

KANAYAMA, Heizo

Chrysanthemums

1928

NAKAMURA, Fusetsu

Priest Lan Zan Does Not Answer to a Messenger of the Emperor

1928

SAEKI, Yuzo

Church at Morin

1928

AOYAMA, Kumaji

Landscape, Steep Mountains

1928

TOMITA, On'ichiro

Children and Mother

1928

MAETA, Kanji

Nude

1928

KOGA, Harue

Design for the Poster of the 13th Raimokukaiten Exhibition

1928

KISHIDA, Ryusei

A Mask of an Ogre, Butterfly, Tsurunosuke, and Ryusei

c.1928

KISHIDA, Ryusei

Folktale Sarukani Kassen (The Battle Between the Monkey and the Crab)

c.1928

YAMAGISHI, Kazue

Notre-Dame of Paris in the Rain

1928

KOGA, Harue

Study for Flower Arranging

1928

Ryusei in the Coffin

1929

NATORI, Shunsen

Matsumoto Koshiro VII as Ikyu the Breaded, from Additions to Portraits by Shunsen

1929

OMODA, Seiju

Scroll of Sketches

c.1929-30

ERNST, Max

Marceline-Marie, from A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil (Reve d'une petite fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel)

1929-30

FUJITA, Tsuguharu

Self-Portrait

1929

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