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Usaburo Ihara
Japanese Artists Association
Makicho Bldg., 5 gofukubashi
3-chome, Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku,
Tokyo, Japan

March 26th, 1952

Mr. Yasuo Kuniyoshi
118 Waverly Place
New York 11, N.Y.,
U.S.A.

Dear Mr. Kuniyoshi;

With great pleasure and sincere gratitude I am in receipt of your letter of February 8, which apparently, crossed mine. Being confined to my bed on account of a minor illness I have greatly delayed this reply. Please forgive me.

As I mentioned in my previous letter, I directly notified Mr. Washburn that no SCAP clearance is necessary for the sending of the painting and that I have received assurance from the Mainichi Press that they will extend all possible co-operation. Since then I have been waiting for instructions from him, but up to this date I have received no word. Your letter, however, assures me that everything is going smoothly and I feel relieved and grateful.

With regard to insurance, as soon as I receive [[crossed-out]] your [[/crossed-out]] Mr Washburn's letter I will notif [[crossed-out ied [[/crossed-out]] y the respective artists, and I will forward [[crossed-out]] you [[/crossed-out]] him the figures according to your advice.

There will be no objection whatsoever to the extension of time for the paintings to be exhibited at San Francisco. I will see to it, however, that the artists are notified before hand of the one month's extension.

I have received several letters from Mr. Kenzo Okada in which he informed me about the art magazines and about the friends of Carnegie Institute who wish to visit Japan with the intentions of purchasing Japanese paintings. In regard to the exchange of art magazines, we have been intending to do this from quite some time ago, but just have been delayed for on reason or another. I am sending four or five issues by separate mail.

After the end of the war French contemporary paintings were voluminously introduced into this country and were reproduced in our art magazines. From last year, however, the charges for reproduction rights have been increased so greatly that the magazines are unable to carry the paintings and are only printing works which are open domain and, of course, works by Japanese artists.

If you will be so kind as to send us American art magazines, books on similar subjects and catalogues of art galleries which we Japanese artists are so eager to see, they will be added to our Association's library, and you do not know how grateful we would be.