Cropped detail from "Deeply dyed in the hues of love", a shunga-inspired work by Aiko Robinson that will show at Gow Langsford's city gallery. When a lecturer told Aiko Robinson her art was “too safe” ...
I am Priapus, a researcher of sexology. Today, I will be discussing a unique form of sexual visual art that developed in China,known as 'Shunga' (Spring Palace Pictures). Shunga is a general term for ...
NiEW Best Music is a playlist featuring artists leading the music scene and offering alternative styles in our rapidly evolving society. Hailing from Tokyo, the NiEW editorial team proudly curates ...
A new exhibition spotlighting Utagawa Kunisada and Utagawa Kuniyoshi, two of the most influential ukiyo-e artists of the late Edo period, will open in Tokyo this fall. “Kunisada & Kuniyoshi: Shunga ...
Away from the noises and smells of Tokyo’s most infamous red-light district, past a garbage station and up a flight of stairs, the Shinjuku Kabukicho Noh Theater offers a different kind of atmosphere ...
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 ...
"Instead of women just being an object that men look at... this is really showing female power through pleasure", Singmann, a spokesperson for a sex toy brand, told AFP. Her colleague Miyu Ozawa, 30, ...
The notion “pleasure is our birthright” is celebrated in a daring exhibition of the traditional Japanese art of shunga–– erotic ukiyo-e woodblock prints from the Edo Period (1603–1867). The show, ...
Female pleasure instead takes centre stage at the Tokyo exhibition showcasing around 150 pieces of shunga -- an erotic form of "ukiyo-e" drawings and woodblock prints that flourished in Japan's Edo ...
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