. Japan, a record in colour . man that lives now. He no understand ifit good or bad ; but it must be old. Well, we makehim the old one ; and here Inchie gave me an exactdescription of how they make the old first begin by making the paper look old, andevery producer has his several methods of bringingabout age. This is how Inchie does it. He haseight various stains in eight separate baths, in whichhe puts his paper, holding the two opposite cornersand dashing it from one bath to another in one quick,dexterous sweep. Then the paper is left to dry, andout of about one hundred sheet
. Japan, a record in colour . man that lives now. He no understand ifit good or bad ; but it must be old. Well, we makehim the old one ; and here Inchie gave me an exactdescription of how they make the old first begin by making the paper look old, andevery producer has his several methods of bringingabout age. This is how Inchie does it. He haseight various stains in eight separate baths, in whichhe puts his paper, holding the two opposite cornersand dashing it from one bath to another in one quick,dexterous sweep. Then the paper is left to dry, andout of about one hundred sheets stained in this way,in all probability only a dozen will be found sufficientlyperfect to deceive the buyer. That is the beginningof the manufacture of an imitation old kakemono tobe sold to the European connoisseur for hundreds ofdollars, afterwards to find its resting-place in somecelebrated museum. What chance has a European against a genius likethis ? and how can he detect deception in objects that 168 MAKING UP ACCOUNTS. Workers have been the result of such minute care and considera-tion ? The Japanese can imitate postage stamps soaccurately that the only hope of discovering a fraudlies in analysing the gum at the back of a we stain paper in coffee or beer to give it theeffect of age, we consider that we have gone far inthe art of imposition ; but in this direction, as inmany others, we are mere babies compared with theJapanese. But then, Inchie, I said, in reply to his statementthat it was childs play to deceive the Westerner, youtoo are sometimes deceived by us. I know of a gentle-man in England who brought over to Japan a largecollection of modern porcelain of English manufacture,and by clever handling he imposed the whole loton an artist at Osaka in exchange for some rare oldSatsuma. Then I enlarged on the hardship of thestory. I explained how the Englishman had persuadedthe Osaka painter to give up all the rare old Satsumathat he had collected during the c
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