In conjunction with the marquee races of the Oracle-sponsored America's Cup (coming to a waterfront near you in Summer 2013) bajillionaire boating enthusiast and suspected evil villain Larry Ellison will put a significant portion of his obsessive Japanese art collection on display at San Franciso's Asian Art Museum.

Ellison — whose other displays of wealth and opulence can be seen up on Billionaire's Row, floating in waters off the South of France, or occasionally sprayed all over the faces of A-Cup sailors — will display about 80 "exceptional" examples of Japanese art spanning over 1,300 years of history.

According to a press release, the works were collected by Ellison to decorate one of his heavily Japanese-influenced homes in Woodside, California. Now that Ellison unloaded some property in favor of something woodsier up in Tahoe, we guess he needs some place to store all that artwork. Either way: unless you were part of Larry's cabal chances are good you've never laid eyes on The Larry Ellison Collection, which includes "a 13th-14th century wooden sculpture of Shotoku Taishi; six-panel folding screens dating to the 17th century by Kano Sansetsu; and 18th century paintings by acclaimed masters Maruyama Okyo and Ito Jakuchu."

The exhibition goes up next summer on June 28th, 2013 and will be on display until September 23rd.

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[Asian Art Museum]
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