The collection of the Ota Memorial Museum of Art consists of over 14,000 ukiyo-e works, including 12.000 works collected by the late Seizō Ota Ⅴ, a former former president of Tōhō Insurance Company. His collection was opened to the public after his passed away in 1977. The collection contains both masterpieces of nikuhitsu-ga painting and ukiyo-e wood-block prints—two substantial portions of ukiyo-e—and is one of the world’s leading private collections of ukiyo-e art.
