The V&A's collection of Japanese art and design is one of the largest in Britain. It includes ceramics, lacquer, arms and armour, woodwork, metalwork, textiles and dress, prints, paintings and sculpture.
Room 45: Japan
Room 45 contains a wide range of treasures from Japan including swords and armour, netsuke (small carvings), wood-block prints, textiles, lacquer, ceramics and other articl…
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Toshiba Japanese Ceramics Resident, Keiko Masumoto
Keiko Masumoto is Toshiba Japanese Ceramics Resident at the V&A, April - September 2013
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Japanese bronzes of the Meiji period
When Emperor Meiji was restored to power in 1868, Japanese artisans, particularly metalworkers, lost their traditional samurai patrons.
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Ukiyo-e: pictures of the Floating World
Images of everyday Japan printed for popular consumption in the Edo period, represent one of the highpoints of Japanese cultural achievement.
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120-plate Japanese helmet, 1700-1800
This extremely fine quality Japanese helmet is of the type known as suji-bachi (ridged bowl) and is made from 120 russet iron plates riveted vertically.
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Japanese export lacquer panel
This Japanese lacquer panel was almost certainly the top of a chest made around 1640 for the European market.
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A gift in your will
You may not have thought of including a gift to a museum in your will, but the V&A is a charity and legacies form an important source of funding for our work. It is not just the great collectors and the wealthy who leave legacies to the V&A. Legacies of all sizes, large and small, make a real difference to what we can do and your support can help ensure that future generations enjoy the V&A as much as you have.
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Japanese Art and Design (New Edition)
The V&A's greatest treasures from the Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art shine in this newly updated overview of Japanese art from the last four cent…
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