The Museum's collection, mostly derived from the imperial collection, includes some 30,000 pieces.

He was allowed to study books in the imperial collection of books.

After several years, the imperial collections were more comprehensive.

Inspired by the idea of enlightened absolutism, the intention was to make the imperial collection accessible to the general public.

It was a pride of the personal imperial collections of emperors for centuries.

This allowed him to examine all the paintings in the imperial collection, something no private citizen had ever done.

The Hermitage remained a repository of the imperial collection until 1917.

The text was completed c. 818, four years after the previous imperial collection, Ryōunshū.

The Palace Museum holds about 320,000 pieces of porcelain from the imperial collection.

Inclusion in any imperial collection, and particularly the Kokinshū, was a great honour.