Published on the occasion of the Lugano exhibition, this volume presents more than 160 works from the period between the 12th and 20th centuries from the world-renowned and extraordinarily rich Montgomery Collection. Carefully selected from among the more than one thousand objects collected over a lifetime by Jeffrey Montgomery, the works in this splendid collection - textiles, furniture, paintings, objects of worship and everyday life - lead to the very heart of Japanese art, taking us on a fascinating journey to discover the aesthetic ideals of a civilisation that goes back millennia.