Tokugawa Art Museum, Nagoya
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The Tokugawa Art Museum (徳川美術館 Tokugawa Bijutsukan?), located in Nagoya, Japan, opened in 1935 and is supported by the Tokugawa Reimeikai Foundation of Tōkyō. The collection holds more than 12,000 pieces including: swords, armor, Nō costumes and masks, lacquer furniture, Chinese and Japanese ceramics, calligraphy, paintings from the Chinese Song and Yuan dynasties (960-13680, and Heian period (704-1185) scrolls of the Tale of Genji.
Traditional Japanese and Chinese art objects on public view are often found in private collections that have become public. The Tokugawa Art Museum's collection originally was among the daimyô collection of Tokugawa Yoshichika (1886-1976), who was the 19th lord of Owari Province (now Aichi Prefecture). He was the descendant of the first lord of Owari, Tokugawa Yoshinao (1600-1650), the 9th son of the first Tokugawa shōgun, Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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