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Acknowledgments

I am greatly indebted to the Museum für Kunst and Gewerbe in Hamburg and to Dr. Rose Hempel who heads the East Asia section of this museum who gave permission to reproduce two surimono in this book (Plates 12 and 32). All other surimono presented are from my private collection.

Grateful acknowledgment should also be given to Mr. Usher P. Coolidge of the Fogg Art Museum for his kind assistance, and to Mr. Charles H. Mitchell who very kindly read the first manuscript and gave competent, useful advice for various improvements.

On this occasion I want to express my gratitude to an old personal friend, now deceased, Mr. K. Taki. When I was very young, he did much to stimulate my interest in the beauty of Japanese art and literature, thus rendering the 60 years of my stay in Japan both interesting and enjoyable.