The KONRONSHA Collection is dedicated to the preservation and study of ethno-religious artifacts from India and the Himalayan region.
About Konronsha
The Konronsha Collection preserves and manages a diverse body of religious art, ethnographic materials, and natural specimens—including meteorites—assembled primarily in India and the Himalayan region by its founder, Kazuhiko Tagami.
Collected through decades of fieldwork and research, these materials constitute a body of primary sources that illuminate humanity's enduring expressions of faith, prayer, and engagement with the natural world.
Throughout history, communities living within environments that were both abundant and unforgiving have perceived unseen forces through the presence of deities, expressing reverence through ritual, devotion, and artistic creation. Meteorites, too, have long occupied a special place in human culture, regarded as tangible manifestations of a cosmos beyond ordinary human experience and incorporated into systems of belief, symbolism, and material culture.
What distinguishes this collection is its ability to reveal, across regions and disciplines, how relationships between people, nature, belief, and invisible concepts have taken form through objects and material expression.
This website presents a selected portion of the collection currently preserved and managed by Konronsha.
Inquiries
For many years, Konronsha has supplied objects and reference materials to museums and cultural institutions, including the National Museum of Ethnology (Japan) and the Tenri University Sankokan Museum.
We warmly welcome inquiries from researchers, museum professionals, curators, and collectors who share an interest in these fields.
Research & Academic Collaboration
By searching for "Kazuhiko Tagami" in the Specimen and Artifact Database of the National Museum of Ethnology (Japan), visitors can view 1,969 catalogued materials previously acquired by the museum, including a significant number of Tibetan woodblocks.
In recent years, Konronsha has provided collection images and research support to projects in the fields of medical anthropology and ethnology.
A Himalayan sickness mask preserved in the Konronsha Collection was referenced in the international research project "4P-Project (Patients, Practitioners, Practices, Plant Drugs)" led by Dutch medical anthropologist Peter De Smet. The collection was formally credited in the resulting academic publication as:
"Image credit: Yusuke Tagami, KonRon-Sha Collection, JP"