Yamanaka & Company

Founded by Sadajirō Yamanaka, Yamanaka & Company grew from a small New York antiques shop into a major international art dealership with offices in cities including Boston, London, Paris, Shanghai, and Beijing. The business became especially influential in introducing Asian art to American and European collectors and museums.

The company was known for handling Japanese, Chinese, and Korean works of art and for publishing richly illustrated sales catalogues. Those catalogues remain valuable today because they document objects, collecting tastes, and the global art trade of the period.

Although it was a company rather than a single writer, Yamanaka & Company is often credited as the author of its catalogues and related publications. In that sense, its "about the author" story is really the story of an ambitious art firm that helped connect cultures through art, scholarship, and commerce.