Yamanaka & Company's branch office in Boston, Massachusetts Asian division was located at 424 Boylston Street. The store was a center for Chinese art, as well as for Japanese assorted goods. Yamanaka & Co., Japanese art dealer, had traded for arts and handicrafts throughout the world since 1890s. The1915 British Red Cross exhibition was a loan exhibition showing Japanese arts and handicrafts at Yamanaka's showroom. Examining the exhibition offers the key to an understanding of Japanese art collectors and collections related to Yamanaka in the early Twentieth Century Britain. In those days, staffs of the company advised to British scholars with using expert knowledge. Collectors’ community such as Japan Society organized Japanese art collections in museums, and turned out specialists of the specific area. Yamanaka & Co. took an active part in making Britain’s Japanese art collections in existence.