Press cutting about The Japan Society's visit and subsequent description of the decor of the Museum.

A press cutting of an article describing the Japan Society’s visit to The Horniman Museum. The short excerpt describes how the members of the Society would have believed themselves of being in their native country due to a number of wall hangings of Japanese embroidery, paintings, and ‘grotesque masks used in Japanese theatres, and with the added reception room as being the one room which is greatly devoted to Japanese curiosities. The excerpt concludes by mentioning the visitors had an ‘agreeable and edifying entertainment’.

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