Though unique styles have been accumulated for describing various aspects of Japanese traditional cultural properties, few education systems and academic discussions have been developed for it. Therefore much difficulty is caused in sharing information about cultural properties among museums and researchers. This paper introduces data categories used in published catalogs of some museums in Japan, and tries to arrange them into international museum data standard. As a result, despite names of the categories vary widely among museums, many share common concepts by appropriate arrangement. This fact suggests the possibility of sharing of basic object data among museums. As every category has its characteristic style of description based on academic background, the author introduces some typical styles and points out some problems expected in sharing information.