Nara National Museum - Collections

Collections

The museum is noted for its collection of Buddhist art, including images, sculpture, and altar articles. The museum houses and displays works of art belonging to temples and shrines in the Nara area. Properties kept in the Shōsōin repository are exhibited each year in the autumn.

In the museum's collection is the 12-century Hell Scroll (Nara National Museum) (地獄草紙?), 11th or 12th-century mandala Jōdo mandara-zu, and the 9th-century seated sculpture of the Buddha Yakushi.