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16 mar 2023 · Popular during Japan’s Edo period (1600–1868), erotic shunga (春画; literally ‘spring’ pictures) served a range of purposes, from art and entertainment to self-pleasure aids and sex-educational material for young couples.
Shunga (春画) is a type of Japanese erotic art typically executed as a kind of ukiyo-e, often in woodblock print format. While rare, there are also extant erotic painted handscrolls which predate ukiyo-e. [1] Translated literally, the Japanese word shunga means picture of spring; "spring" is a common euphemism for sex. [1]
24 mar 2023 · Japanese shunga is a kind of sensual art that is primarily created using woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e. The Japanese erotic art, Shunga, translates to a “picture of spring”, which is a term commonly used to allude to sex in Japanese culture.
Since the conception of this volume, Tim Screech has published the first critical study of shunga in any language, Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan, 1700 –1820.23 Screech’s study is a strong attack on the formalist approach to shunga favored by many ukiyo-e specialists in Japan.
11 sty 2017 · Utagawa Kunisada is a Ukiyo-e painter who gained tremendous popularity in the late Edo period. His pen name for shunga is “Bukiyo Matahei”. It is famous for drawing bijin-ga and actor pictures that make the decadent mood of the Edo period drift.
What is Shunga? ‘Shunga’ refers to books, paintings and prints that depict sexual relations explicitly. Images often accompany erotic stories or dialogue. These works today are referred to as shunpon (books) or shunga, but in the Edo period there were many terms for shunga: including makura-e, warai-e, ehon (written with various characters).
Utamakura (歌まくら, "poem[s] of the pillow") is the title of a 12-print illustrated book of sexually explicit shunga pictures, published in 1788. The print designs are attributed to the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro, and the book's publication to Tsutaya Jūzaburō.
