Matthew Welch, Yuiko Kimura-Tilford. Worldly pleasures, earthly delights: Japanese prints from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. — Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2011.

Hardcover, 32 x 23.5 cm, publisher's blue cloth, blind-stamped to cover, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial DJ; pp.: [1-6] 7-375 [376 blank], ill.

This catalogue features the top ten percent of the collection ... presented in an exhibition ['Great ukiyo-e masters : common pleasures, uncommon prints : Japanese woodcuts from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts', sponsored by Asano Laboratories] that opened in Tokyo at the Shoto Museum of Art on October 2, 2007, and traveled to the Nara Prefectural Museum of Art and the Sanritz Hattori Museum of Arts"--Foreword.
"This [2011] publication ... coincides with a special exhibition, 'Edo Pop: Japanese Master Prints from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts' (October 16, 2011, through January 8, 2012), which will [also] be shown at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta ..."--Foreword.
"With contributions by Shūgō Asano, Akane Fujisawa, Murasaki Fujisawa, Yuriko Iwakiri, Yōsuke Katō, Junko Mutō, Noriko Yamamoto.

Contents:

Foreword / Kaywin Feldman
Acknowledgments / Matthew Welch, Yuiko Kimura-Tilford
Seductive beauty : coveting and collecting Ukiyo-e / Matthew Welch
Time line of the artists
Catalogue of selected prints
Object list in English and Japanese