Designed for pleasure
Subtitle: the world of Edo Japan in prints and paintings, 1680-1860
By: edited by Julia Meech and Jane Oliver ; with essays by John T. Carpenter ... [et al.].
Contributors: Meech-Pekarik, Julia.; Oliver, Jane; Carpenter, John T.; Asia Society.
Publisher: Asia Society and Japanese Art Society of America; In association with University of Washington Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York; Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780295987866
Subjects: Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions; Ukiyoe -- Exhibitions; Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Asia Society and Museum, New York, New York, Feb. 27-May 4, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A Mirror on the Floating World / Donald Jenkins; title: Hishikawa Moronobu: tracking down an elusive master / David Waterhouse; title: The original source (accept no substitutes!): Okumura Masanobu / Sarah E. Thompson; title: Suzuki Harunobu: the cult and culture of color / Allen Hockley; title: Katsukawa Shunshō: Ukiyo-e paintings for the samurai elite / Timothy Clark; title: Tsutaya Jūzaburō: master publisher / Julie Nelson Davis; title: The literary network: private commissions for Hokusai and his circle / John T. Carpenter; title: Designed for pleasure: Ukiyo-e as material culture / David Pollack.