The Asians Art Museum of San Francisco is one of the finest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Oriental art.
But we are more than just an art museum--we are your ticket to cultural tourism.
Here you can travel back to yet another time of ancient wisdom and mysterious traditions,
part the veil on yet another elegant world of sacred passions and curious desires,
visit one more stop along a seemingly endless tour of exotic sameness called
Orientalism.
Highlights
What can art do?
Make things, or make things happen?
Lord It's the Samurai
Myth, Militarism, and Man-boy Love
The Ideology of Tea
Unchanging essence of Japanese uniqueness
Way of the Samurai in Modern Times
Bushidō in the 20th century and beyond
