Museum of Japanese Art


The Museum of Japanese Art Yamato Bunkakan is a museum of Asian art in Nara, Nara.
The museum was established in 1960 to preserve and display the private collection of Kintetsu Corporation.

Collection

This museum of Asian art has holdings of more than twenty thousand objects of sculpture, ceramics, lacquer, paintings, prints, textiles and calligraphy. The museum features a program of regularly changing exhibitions. The founding director in 1960 was art historian Yukio Yashiro.

National treasures

Two national treasures in the collection are illustrative scenes from Yoru no Nezame.