BOOKS FOR COLLECTORS _With Frontispieces and many Illustrations._ CHATS ON ENGLISH CHINA. By Arthur Hayden. CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE. By Arthur Hayden. CHATS ON OLD PRINTS. (How to collect and value Old Engravings.) By Arthur Hayden. CHATS ON COSTUME. By G. Woolliscroft Rhead. CHATS ON OLD LACE AND NEEDLEWORK. By E. L. Lowes. CHATS ON ORIENTAL CHINA. By J. F. Blacker. CHATS ON OLD MINIATURES. By J. J. Foster, F.S.A. CHATS ON ENGLISH EARTHENWARE. (Companion volume to "Chats on English China.") By Arthur Hayden. CHATS ON AUTOGRAPHS. By A. M. Broadley. CHATS ON PEWTER. By H. J. L. J. Massé, M.A. CHATS ON POSTAGE STAMPS. By Fred. J. Melville. CHATS ON OLD JEWELLERY AND TRINKETS. By MacIver Percival. CHATS ON COTTAGE AND FARMHOUSE FURNITURE. (Companion volume to "Chats on Old Furniture.") By Arthur Hayden. CHATS ON OLD COINS By Fred. W. Burgess. CHATS ON OLD COPPER AND BRASS. By Fred. W. Burgess. CHATS ON HOUSEHOLD CURIOS. By Fred. W. Burgess. CHATS ON OLD SILVER. By Arthur Hayden. CHATS ON JAPANESE PRINTS. By Arthur Davison Ficke. CHATS ON MILITARY CURIOS. By Stanley C. Johnson. CHATS ON OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES. By Arthur Hayden. CHATS ON ROYAL COPENHAGEN PORCELAIN. By Arthur Hayden. CHATS ON OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE. (Companion volume to "Chats on Old Silver.") By Arthur Hayden. BYE PATHS OF CURIO COLLECTING. By Arthur Hayden. With Frontispiece and 72 Full page Illustrations. 9s. net. LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, LTD. NEW YORK: F. A. STOKES COMPANY. CHATS ON JAPANESE PRINTS [Illustration: HIROSHIGE: THE BOW-MOON. Size 15 × 7. Signed Hiroshige, hitsu. _Frontispiece._] CHATS ON JAPANESE PRINTS BY ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE WITH 56 ILLUSTRATIONS AND A COLOURED FRONTISPIECE T. FISHER UNWIN LTD LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE * * * * * _First published in 1915_ _Second Impression, 1916_ _Third Impression, 1917_ _Fourth Impression, 1922_ (_All rights reserved_) * * * * * TO FREDERICK WILLIAM GOOKIN AND HOWARD MANSFIELD CUSTODIANS, APPRAISERS, AND LOVERS OF BEAUTY As chosen guests we may partake Of this strange hostel's ancient wine. For thirst no common drink can slake Tapsters of lineage divine Here pour sweet anodyne. The hurly-burly of the road, The turmoil of the carters' feet, Intrude not to this still abode Where travellers from the world-ends meet, And find the gathering sweet. Hence may perhaps some secret gleam Follow along our onward way, From evening feast with lords of dream, As we go forth into the grey To-morrow's cloudy day. PREFACE