Polk Museum of Art owns collections of Korean Silla period ceramic and metal objects that date from 300-900 CE; 19th and 20th Century Chinese and Japanese ceramics, ivories, and textiles; Chinese and Japanese scrolls; and Japanese woodblock prints. Of particular significance in the Asian Art collection is a portfolio of rare 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi depicting the Thirty-two Aspects of Women and a group of 48 ceramic objects by noted 20th-century Japanese artists, which were donated by Reverend Muneharu Kurozumi, Chief Patriarch of Kurozumi-kyo Shintoism. In 2006, William D. and Norma Canelas Roth donated a large collection of Japanese textiles to further expand the museum's holdings of Asian art.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, ‘Undecided: The appearance of a proprietress of the Kaei era(1848-1854),’ 1888, Ukiyo-e woodblock print, Gift of G.E. Robert Meyer
