World's top private Samurai Collection
The Soho Museum has one of the world's most important collections of Samurai and Buddhist artworks, treasures, artifacts, weapons and objects linked to the greatest personalities in Japan's history from the Tokugawa Shogunate and Takeda Shingen to Miayamoto Musashi and Takuan Soho, from saints Shinran and Nichiren to painters Katsushika Hokusai and Sesshu Toyo (who inspired Monet, Renoir and Da Vinci among others).
Top Graeco-Roman Gandhara Collection
The Soho Museum also houses one of the world's most important collections of the earliest Buddhist statues in the world made by the Greeks of Gandhara as well as earliest Buddhist jewelry and archaeology over 2000 years old. The Collection also has the iconic starving Buddha from Gandhara as well as the earliest gilt and bronze Buddhas made in the Graeco-Roman tradition that inspired all other Buddhist art across Asia.
Buddha Relics
In addition, the Soho Museum is one of the only Museums to house the actual relics of the Buddha in 2000 year old stupas from Gandhara -- and has organized the biggest Asian Art Exhibits sponsored by the Government of Canada and praised by the Governments of Japan and India -- as well as Lt. Governors on behalf of the Royal Family of England. The museum also has artworks from China, Tibet and Sri Lanka to link the various Buddhist nations of the world.
