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
Ajinomoto Foundation for Dietary Culture
Asai Collection (Cool Art Tokyo)
Daijôji Temple
Fukuoka Art Museum
Fukuoka City Museum
Gallery MoMo
Hayashibara Museum of Art
Hikone Castle Museum
Ikuta Makoto Collection
Inoue Hakudo
J. Front Retailing Archives Foundation Inc.
Kobe City Museum
Mainichi Newspapers
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Nadamoto Tadahito
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
National Museum of Nature and Science,Tokyo
Nijô Castle
POLA Research Institute of Beauty & Culture
Pola Museum of Art
Seikado Bunko Art Museum
Seiryo-ji Temple
Takehisa Yumeji Museum of Art
Tenri Central Library
The Ancient Orient Museum, Tokyo
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
The Sumida Hokusai Museum
The Tokugawa Art Museum
The Tokugawa Museum, Mito
Tokutani Hideki
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
Tokyo Kasei Gakuin University
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum
Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Architectural Museum
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum
Tokyo National Museum
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Tokyo University of the Arts
Yamanobe Shrine (Gakken)
YokoyamaTaikan Memorial Hall
Yumeji Art Museum
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 (GrandPalaisRmn)
United KingdomThe British Museum
The National Gallery, London
United StatesArt Resource
ItalyAlinari
RussiaThe Puskin State Museum of Fine Arts
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.)