For information on resources that have been independently established by each museum, please refer to the institution’s website.
・The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
・National Crafts Museum
・The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
・National Film Archive of Japan
・The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
・The National Museum of Art, Osaka
・The National Art Center, Tokyo
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The Collection of Hayashi Tadamasa related letters and reference materials / The National Museum of Western Art
https://hayashi.nmwa.go.jp/en/index.html
This website offers access to approximately 950 letters and documents sent to Hayashi Tadamasa, an art dealer pivotal in popularizing Japonisme. They were entrusted by the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties to the National Museum of Western Art in 2016. The website’s contents include information on letters, images of letters, and transcribed texts (when transcriptions are available), which can be searched by “Date of dispatch,” “Sender,” or “List of letters.”
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Japanese Film Heritage: NFAJ Non-film Collection Portal / National Film Archive of Japan
https://nfajfilmheritage.jp/ (in Japanese only)
This website offers access to digitized film-related materials from the NFAJ collection. As of May 29, 2024, the website contains data on 181 pieces of historical film equipment (116 cameras and 65 projectors) and 5,682 film theatre programs (4,449 with images/1,233 metadata only). Searchable by type of equipment, index (specific model, era, name of organization or individual, film title, area), associative keyword search, etc.
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NMAO Search / The National Museum of Art, Osaka
https://search.nmao.go.jp/en/
[Overview]
https://www.nmao.go.jp/en/about/nmao_search/
This Japanese/English website enables users to search for works and artists in the NMAO collection as well as exhibitions and published materials (catalogues, exhibition-related printed matter, periodicals, etc.). For works, exhibition photos, and printed matter, images available in addition to text. Search by type of item, keyword, title, list of artists.
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ICA, Nagoya Related Materials (Tokyo Office) / The National Art Center, Tokyo
[Overview of Materials]
https://www.nact.jp/art-library/archive/collectingarchive.html (in Japanese only)
(SC003 ICA, Nagoya Materials, Tokyo Office)
[Series 1: List of Artist Files]
https://www.nact.jp/art-library/archive/media/SC003-1.pdf
(in Japanese only)
This collection of materials from the Tokyo Office of ICA, Nagoya, a major hub for contemporary art in Japan in the late 1980s, consists of 147 artist files and 3 files of copied documents. It was donated to the National Art Center, Tokyo (NACT) in 2006 by Osaka Eriko, the former ICA, Nagoya program director and current NACT director.
The collection is organized into “Series 1: Artist Files” and “Series 2: Copied Documents.” Series 1 enables referencing a list of artist files on the website. The artist files contain flyers on Japanese artists, exhibition postcards, articles, related literature, etc.
To use the materials, please visit “Materials Acquired by NACT via Donation, Purchase, etc.” (2. 国立新美術館が寄贈・購入等により収集した資料群) (external site).
＞ SC003 ICA, Nagoya Materials (Tokyo Office)
Viewing files requires submission of a “Special Materials Viewing Application Form (Archival Materials, etc.)" (特別資料閲覧申請書（アーカイブズ資料等) in advance.
(as of September. 2023)