The collection, based on that built up by businessman Kitamura Kinjirō (北村謹次郎), comprises some 1,000 works including thirty-three Important Cultural Properties and nine Important Art Objects, with a particular focus on tea utensils.

There is also a tea garden, Shikunshien (四君子苑), a Registered Cultural Property.

The museum opens to the public for exhibitions each autumn and spring.

[1][2] Among the museum's thirty-three Important Cultural Properties are the pair of scrolls Kite and Crows by Yosa Buson,[3] Fujiwara no Nakafumi, from the series Thirty-Six Poetry Immortals formerly in the Satake Collection,[4] and the Spring 1227 (Karoku 3) portion of Fujiwara no Teika's Meigetsuki (明月記).

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