This collection includes articles based on the materials of the All-Russian scientific conference "Collecting Japanese Art in Russia in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries," held at the HSE School of Oriental Studies in February 2019 in Moscow. In the XIX-XX centuries. in Russia there was an interest in the culture of Japan, people appeared who were ready to buy and collect works of Japanese art. The articles consider the problems associated with the formation of collections, their content, the fate of collections and collectors.