Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of an Exceedingly Important Collection of Artistic Oriental Objects and Decorative Art Which the Owners Have Been Three Years in Assembling The Messrs. Yamanaka and Company; who have not recently appeared with a collection at auction in the public sales room, have desired to make an exhibition of decorative art along the lines in which they specialize, an exhibition of artistic Oriental objects to make a home beautiful, and for the last three years they have been assembling those which are here brought together. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.