There, valuable cultural properties that had been handed down in the Owari Tokugawa family, including Genji Monogatari Emaki (illustrated hand scrolls of the Tale of Genji), are preserved and exhibited.
徳川美術館では、源氏物語絵巻をはじめとする尾張徳川家伝来の貴重な文化財を保存し公開している。