Seattle Asian Art Museum: Japanese Collection Tour

The recent restoration and expansion of the Seattle Asian Art Museum presented a special opportunity to completely redesign and reinstall the museum’s galleries. For the inaugural installation, "Boundless: Stories of Asian Art," SAM’s Asian art curators collaborated to present outstanding artworks to showcase SAM’s most significant holdings of Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and South Asian art for visitors to enjoy on a single visit to the museum.

Thanks to a generous grant from the Atsuhiko & Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation, we were able to record a dedicated tour of the Japanese masterworks featured in the museum. Xiaojin Wu, Atsuhiko & Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation Curator of Japanese & Korean Art, leads this tour, which provides a close look at more than a dozen artworks our collection.

As she makes her way through the galleries, Xiaojin highlights many significant paintings, sculptures, and lacquerware selected from the museum’s over 3,400 works of Japanese art. This collection is one of the finest outside of Japan and one of the top ten in the United States.

Thank you to the Atsuhiko & Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation for making it possible to create this video tour, which allows SAM to better share this incredible collection with not only museum members and local audiences, but with the larger community and art-enthusiasts from across the globe as well. Visit the Seattle Asian Art Museum to see all the treasures featured in this video.

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