Collection Highlights
Western-Style Paintings
Our collection of Western-style paintings, focused mainly on oils but including also acrylics, watercolours and sketches, comprises around 3,000 works from important Japanese painters who helped carve out the Japanese tradition of Western-style painting from the late nineteenth through to the late twentieth century, including Yuichi Takahashi, Tetsugoro Yorozu, Ryusei Kishida, Harue Koga, Shunsuke Matsumoto, and Saburo Aso, as well as those active on an international stage such as Yasukazu Tabuchi and Shimpei Sakakura.