Culture or time period
- Ainu77 objects
- Asian cultures2,200 objects
- Asuka period (538–710 AD)20 objects
- Azuchi-Momoyama period (ca. 1573–1603 AD)2 objects
- Chinese2 objects
- Chinese cultures16 objects
- Confederacy dynasties (2070–221 BC)1 objects
- Dynastic China (2070 BC–1912 AD)14 objects
- Early Jōmon (ca. 4,000–ca. 2500 BC)10 objects
- East Asian cultures2,584 objects
- Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 BC)1 objects
- Edo period (1603-1868)58 objects
- European4 objects
- European cultures4 objects
- Final Jōmon (ca. 900–ca. 300 BC)3 objects
- Heian period (794–1185 AD)40 objects
- Imperial dynasties (221 BC–1912 AD)14 objects
- Japanese2,198 objects
- Japanese cultures2,568 objects
- Jōmon culture (ca. 14,000–ca. 300 BC)313 objects