Cover; Obsession; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Foreword; Part One; Introduction; The Nation Builder; Van Horne and Friends: Collecting European Art in Montreal's Square Mile; Japan Contained: The Birth of the Asian Collections at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; The "Social Life" of the Van Horne Japanese Ceramic Collection; The Ninsei Tea Bowl; Part Two; Van Horne's Notebooks; Ceramics Catalogue; Case Studies; Bibliographies; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Additional Illustration Credits