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

KOBAYAKAWA, Tokushiro

Enemy Heavy Cruiser Houston Sunk by Our Destroyer off Batavia

1942

KOISO, Ryohei

Meeting at Kalijati, Java

1942

KAWABATA, Minoru

The Borneo Operations

c.1942

OKUSE, Eizo

Naval Battle Off Surabaya

1942

OGAWARA, Shu

Bombing Attu

1942

ISHIKAWA, Shigehiko

Sea Battle off Batavia

1942

ARIOKA, Ichiro

Naval Battle Off Java

1942

YOSHIOKA, Kenji

Bombing at the West Area of Karijati Airfield, Java

1942

YAMAGUCHI, Hoshun

Final All-out Attack on Hong Kong Island

1942

YAZAWA, Gengetsu

Singapore Naval Port Just After Occupation

c.1942

FUKUDA, Toyoshiro

Attack on British Borneo

c.1942

MIWA, Chosei

Attack on the Cavite Naval Base

1942

IBARAKI, Sampu

Submarines Setting Out on a Sortie

1942

MIYAKE, Kokki

Mt. Myogi in Joshu District

1942

TSUJI, Shindo

Poet (Prototype for Figure of Otomo no Yakamochi)

1942

HIRAKUSHI, Denchu

Kakusho [statue of Okakura Tenshin]

1942

SAITO, Sogan

Co-Prosperity

1942

MORIMOTO, Kiyomi

Man

1942

No image

FARKAS, Thomaz

Pacaembu Stadium, São Paulo from Thomaz Farkas: 60 years of Photography

1942 (printed 2002)

No image

LEVITT, Helen

New York

c. 1942 (printed later)

ADAMS, Ansel

Pool, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico

c.1942 (printed 1981)

No image

SHIGETA, Harry K.

Still Life

1942

KOMAI, Tetsuro

Scaffold

1942

HIRATSUKA, Un'ichi

Horyu-ji Temple in the Twilight

1942

KAWANISHI, Yuzaburo

Flowers in a Vase

1942

HASHIMOTO, Okiie

Hikone Castle

1942

KAWANISHI, Hide

Mt. Fuji in a Moonlit Night (The Lake Shoji)

1942

NABEI, Katsuyuki

Winter Landscape in Hakone

1942

OKUYAMA, Gihachiro

Sakurabashi Bridge Viewed from Shirauobashi Bridge

1942

OKUYAMA, Gihachiro

Yoroibashi Bridge

1942

OKUYAMA, Gihachiro

Keio University in Mita

1942

ITO, Shinsui

Graceful Woman

1942

KAWASE, Hasui

Nakiri District, Shima

1942

KAWASE, Hasui

The Shikishima Riverside Fields, Maebashi

1942

KAWASE, Hasui

The Town of Nissaka from Scenes from the Tokaido Highway

1942

KAWASE, Hasui

The Town of Shimada from Scenes from the Tokaido Highway

1942

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