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Joyous and life-affirming: detail from 'Men with women in a bath house' by Isoda Koryusai (Japan, 18th century) Credit: Photo: ALAMY The Japanese erotic art called shunga is so explicit that the ...

Japanese erotic prints known as "shunga" -- literally, "spring pictures" -- are described by Tokyo Shimbun (May 1) as "one type of 'ukiyo-e' (floating world picture) that was popular during the Edo ...

TOKYO — Graphic depictions of enormous phalluses and acrobatic sex positions have long rendered centuries-old Japanese "shunga" art taboo, but a rare exhibition aims to prove the genre is a world ...

Entitled ‘ A Small Love Story: The World of Mameban Shunga ’, the exhibition is on until March 15 and features some 300 mameban shunga curated by Yasutaka Hayashi of artist collective Chim↑Pom from ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

version of that masterpiece 'The Dream of the Fisherman ', which is famous as one of the woodblock prints in the glossy book 'Kinoe no Komatsu' by Katsushika Hokusai around 1820. I went to shoot at ...

11 x 14.5 in. (27.9 x 36.8 cm.) Delicately hand painted on paper, this intimate scene is an exceptional example of the Japanese art shunga. Shunga, a traditional Japanese term of erotic art, ...

Japanese erotic prints known as "shunga" -- literally, "spring pictures" -- are described by Tokyo Shimbun (May 1) as "one type of 'ukiyo-e' (floating world picture) that was popular during the Edo ...