Arts of Pan-Asia
China, Japan, Korea, India, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia
The Honolulu Museum of Art’s comprehensive collection of Asian art spans nearly 6,000 years and numbers around 23,600 objects covering a broad geographical region. The collection has played a central role since the museum first opened to the public in 1927, beginning with East Asian art, to represent the immigrant communities from China, Japan, and Korea already in the islands at that time. Over the years the museum has expanded its Asian holdings to include India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Highlights include one of the finest—and earliest—well preserved examples of wooden 11th-century Buddhist sculpture from China’s Northern Song dynasty, a 19th-century monumental, polychrome Nandi head from Southern India, and a 13th-century sandstone sculpture of Prajnaparamita from Cambodia
Highlights from the collection
