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MAIN HOUSE
OSAKA
BRANCH HOUSES
TERAMACHI, KIOTO
NOBORIOJI, NARA

EXPERIMENTAL GARDEN
IKEDA, HIOGO
JAPAN

LONDON HOUSE
68 NEW BOND ST., LONDON, W.

YAMANAKA & CO.
Dealers in Japanese Art Objects
254 FIFTH AVENUE
Bet. 28th and 29th Sts.

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AMERICAN HOUSES
272 BOYLSTON STREET
BOSTON, MASS.

BOARD WALK
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.

NURSERY DEPARTMENT
GREENHOUSES 
230-234 Columbia St.
Dorchester, Mass

New York,  190

name are correct, in cases where no signature appears. I went through all you did not set aside, also. Among them I found some very fine pieces, which, in your hasty examination, you had no time fully to criticize. Mr. Ushintenbo said that, in some cases, you made unfavorable comment on the faces; but this should not count, where the type of face is common to a whole period. I picked out 13 to send to you, almost all of which are more important for your collection than the majority of those you chose so hastily. Many are up to the highest level of my own former Ukiyo-ye collection, which you now have. 

I think the best way to criticize will be to use, first, two marks, □ for those you selected, o for others I selected. Then to arrange them in the order of what I think to be their relative importance to your Collection of Ukiyo-ye, naming them by the names which Yamanaka himself gives, and marking that importance on a scale of 100% - which would be a thing of absolute importance. These numbers will precede the name. The number of percentage following the name will be the value of the piece among all the known works of that master (my attribution of mastership) 100% being his finest piece. All the early pieces in the following list I think of so great importance to your collection that I advise you not to return them, even if