Excerpt from Rare Japanese Color Prints, the Collection of Mrs. John Osgood Blanchard: To Be Sold at Unrestricted Public Sale on the Afternoon and Evening of Wednesday, April 5th, at 2. 30 and 8. 00 O'clock, Concluding Thursday Afternoon, April 6th, at 2. 30 O'clock, at the American Art Galleries, Madison Square South It was after seeing the beautiful Harunobu prints owned by Mr. John Stewart Happer, then of Kobe, that we were inspired with the desire to acquire like treasures. Fine examples of the best artists were already rare, and became more and more difficult to Obtain - so many masterpieces which we longed to possess had to be rejected on account of poor Condition. 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.