镍 帝 木 
JAPAN 
門 街 方 總村西 
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or THE 
Birds and Flowers of Japan. 
The originals were drawn by the celebrated painter Kemen Imao. 
FOUR VOLUMES, 
jSpi^ing, Rummer, ^utumn and 界 inter. 
Price per vol. One yen Sixty sen. 
Our house lias been engaged in painting and embroidering for several 
generations. The present is an age of progress and in harmony with the 
command of our Emperor to help forward the fine arts we stu dy more 
and more to produce the best. We are very happy to state that by the 
favor of the Imperial house hold we are daily receiving orders both from 
the government and from native and foreign merchants. In order to 
make our work more perfect we have prepared and published most skilful 
and accurate paintings of flowers and birds. We do not say that common 
paintings are not skilfully and beautifully executed but when judged by 
their power to excite the admiration of men to-day, there is a great defi- 
ciency. This is but natural since the original painter paints not according 
to the inner spirit but according to the exterior substance and form. We 
have realized this lack of the spirit for a long time and so we have made 
a very wide collection of flowers and birds and secured the great drawer 
of pictures, Mr. Keinen Imao, to make true pictures of them. The painter, 
being in sympathy with our humble desire, has wrought very dcilfullv, so 
they shine out upon the paper as if they were flesh, with wonderful preci- 
sion. When any one looks at them he feels as if he were looking at the 
living* things. These pictures are not only useful as models to paint and 
embroider furn, but for everything for which a beautiful model is need- 
ed, as, for example, for decorating crockery and lacquer- work, and for 
carving. Hence I hope that these models will be very widely purchased 
and used. 
SoZAEMON NlSHIMURA. 
