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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Giant genitalia in action and ribald humour take centre stage at a British Museum show of erotic art from feudal Japan that runs until next January. The museum's "Shunga: Sex and ...

“Shun-ga,” spring pictures, have long been widespread in East Asia. They testify to a different attitude to sexuality and eroticism from our conditioning to such elements in Europe and are classified ...

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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 ...