On September 19, the Eisei Bunko Museum in Tokyo bravely unveiled an exhibition of traditional Japanese erotic art called shunga. Despite the historical nature of the pieces, the art show doesn’t come ...

Celebrating sexual scenarios that appear both erotic and humorous is Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japenese Art, a new exhibit at The British Musuem in London. Shunga — which translates literally to ...

Between 1600 and the late 1900s, Japan embraced a culture of sexual delight and pleasure. The best of this art is going on display at the British Museum. Shunga is an art form that flourished between ...

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 apart from ...

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 ...

11 x 14.5 in. (27.9 x 36.8 cm.) A wonderful example of the Japanese art form known as shunga, this erotic drawing depicts a man and woman engaged in sensuous touching. Hand painted on paper with ...

Kitagawa Utamaro (d. 1806), Lovers in the upstairs room of a teahouse, from Utamakura (Poem of the Pillow), c. 1788. Sheet from a colour-woodblock printed album.Picture: The Trustees of the British ...

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Mid-coitus couples entwined in ways that would test a contortionist, their hugely exaggerated genitalia on full display; Buddhist priests seducing young male novices; women pleasuring each other with ...

One of the museums that turned down the shunga exhibit was the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno. Nobuyuki Matsumoto, a curator responsible for planning projects, explained, "As a public museum we exhibit ...