Record of relics

A new book series features Chinese antiquities collected by a prominent Japanese business family, Lin Qi reports.

More than a year after it published the first volume of the book series Selected Overseas Chinese Cultural Relics, the National Museum of China issued a second book in late April.

The latest in the set catalogs nearly 200 Chinese antiquities kept at Sen-oku Hakuko Kan, a Kyoto-based museum, with a branch in Tokyo. The NMC project started in 2005, when overseas museums with significant Chinese cultural collections were contacted.