Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art

by Timothy Clark

In early modern Japan, 1600-1900, thousands of sexually explicit paintings, prints, and illustrated books with texts were produced, known as 'spring pictures' (shunga). Frequently tender, funny and beautiful, shunga were mostly produced within the popular school known as 'pictures of the floating world' (ukiyo-e), by celebrated artists such as Utamaro and Hokusai. Early modern Japan was certainly not a sex-paradise; however, the values promoted in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004263268
• ISBN13: 9789004263260
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Brill Hotei
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 6.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 10.1" x 11.7"