"Here ends Japanese Painting (its laws and canons) ... with illustrations from paintings especially executed for the author by a number of distinguished artists of Japan, explanatory drawings by Shimada Sekko and appreciative introductions by Iwaya Sazanami and Hirai Kinza ... Printed at ... Tomoye Press, under the typographical direction of John Bernhardt Swart. Printed at the city of San Francisco in the month of November, nineteen hundred and eleven"--Colophon.

Plates I to VIII accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letter-press; plates IX to LXVI printed on both sides and accompanied by 9 leaves with descriptive letterpress.

Personal experiences

Art in Japan

Laws for use of brush and materials

Laws governing conception and execution

Canons of the aesthetics in painting

Subjects for Japanese painting (gwa dai)

Signatures and seals (rakkwan and in)

Explanation of headbands.