Director Junko Hirata delves deep into the history and influence of the pornographic art form without cheap tittering at its illicit imagery. Shunga is one of the most pleasantly surprising nonfiction ...

Statement of responsibility from the publisher's Web site. "A gorgeous presentation devoted to the art of Japanese eroticism, drawn from the Honolulu Museum of Art's rare and distinguished collection.

“Shun-ga,” spring pictures, have long been widespread in East Asia. They testify to a different attitude to sexuality and eroticism from our conditioning to such elements in Europe and are classified ...