Image Licensing
Our company operates an image archive service lending image data of famous artworks from Japan and abroad. This enables expansion of your business in any area in which artworks may be used as a design element - books and magazines, advertising and publicity, new product development, and a variety of innovative applications and new projects.
Image Archives - A vast image database *Japanese only
We handle images of artworks from the collections of many famous museums and galleries, including the Louvre, the British Museum, the Edo-Tokyo Museum, and the Tokugawa Art Museum. From this vast database of art images, you may select ones perfectly suited to your ideas and needs.
*If you plan to pay as an individual, please fill out the form and send it to us by fax.
List of Participating Museums, Galleries, and Agencies
We provide both domestically and outside Japan
Tokyo National Museum
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum
Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Architectural Museum
Tokugawa Art Museum
The Tokugawa Museum, Mito
Seikado Bunko Art Museum
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
Takehisa Yumeji Museum of Art
Yumeji Art Museum
Kobe City Museum
Hikone Castle Museum
Fukuoka Art Museum
Fukuoka City Museum
Pola Museum of Art
Seiryo-ji Temple
Gallery MoMo
Kawachinagano City
Kumagaya City (Kumagaya Dyeing)
Nijô Castle
Inoue Hakudo
YokoyamaTaikan Memorial Hall
Yamanobe Shrine (Gakken)
Ajinomoto Foundation for Dietary Culture
Daijôji Temple
Tokyo Kasei Gakuin University
Ikuta Makoto Collection
Ishii Takashi
Hiramatsu Reiji
Ishiodori Tatsuya
Morita Rieko
Kimura Keigo
Yamagishi Senrin
Tahara Keiichi
Tokutani Hideki
We provide within Japan and 3 foreign countries (China, Taiwan and South Korea)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
We provide within Japan and South Korea
Bridgeman Art Library
We provide within Japan only
FranceRMN (Réunion des Musées Nationaux)
ADAGP
United KingdomThe British Museum
The National Gallery, London
Tate Gallery
The Wallace Collection
United StatesArt Resource
ItalyAlinari
RussiaThe Puskin State Museum of Fine Arts
GermanyBPK (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation)
Czech RepublicMuseum of Decorative Arts in Prague
SwitzerlandZentrum Paul Klee
AustriaKunsthistorisches Museum, Wien
TaiwanTaipei National Palace Museum
Taipei National Museum of History
Rights clearance management
We support the management of and execution of rights clearance for fine arts. If our clients want to use photos that need rights clearance, we search for owners of the rights, negotiate for their usage and prepare positives or digital data.
Photo Research
We will help clients commercially use of cultural photos. Our experienced staff supports clients from photo research, rights clearance, photo arrangements, to planning for products and manufacturing.
Company Profile
Company name: DNP Art Communications Co., Ltd.
Established: July 11, 2008
Head office: 3-5-20 Nishi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-8001
Phone: +81-3-6431-3700
Fax: +81-3-6431-3709
Capital: 300 million yen (100% owned by Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.)