The Tokugawa Art Museum houses over 12,000 items, the basis of the collection consists of family heirlooms, Owari Tokugawa clan. One of the most outstanding exhibits is extant monument scroll with Japanese literature "The Tale of Genji." Scrolls in Japan, only three survived.

The museum was founded in 1935 and has not suffered during the Second World War and the postwar period. In the year of the 50th anniversary - 1985 - at the Museum of the reconstruction, which lasted two years.

Family heirlooms Owari-Tokugawa never passed to other feudal clans may therefore in such numbers have survived to the present day. Many of these items are in perfect condition. The most valuable items in the collection are considered and art objects belonging to Tokugawa Ieyasu - the first shogun, founded his own government. With the reign of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the era of the Edo period, which lasted two and a half centuries - from 1603 to 1868 years. Edo Period is characterized by the cessation of the internecine wars, the development of Japanese national identity, economy, arts, literature, and the self-isolation of the country from the rest of the world.

Visitors can see a collection of luxury of the XII century, ancient weapons and armor, costumes and masks Noh, lacquer ware, ceramics, calligraphy and paintings. Many of the exhibits are national treasures or important cultural monuments of art objects.

Around the museum garden, restored in 2001-2004. In the western part of the building is located library Hosa Bunko. It stores the samples of the Edo period literature, including books from the collection of the first shogun - more than three thousand volumes, as well as books in Chinese and other languages, maps. Here, once a year put on display the original "Tale of Genji" written court lady Murasaki Shikibu. The exhibit is very fragile, so the rest of the time on display is a copy of the scroll.