Shunga: Erotic Art in Japan These constitute some of the finest examples of art-printing in Japan, employing deluxe materials and special printing effects. Erotic encounters in Edo-period woodblock prints reflect multiple persp
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| Title | : | Shunga: Erotic Art in Japan |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.69 (550 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 071412463X |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2010-11-08 |
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Editorial : About the Author Rosina Buckland is curator of the Japanese collections at the National Museum of Scotland. Her primary interests are the art and culture of the late Edo period and early Meiji era, with a focus on paintings and prints. She is a co-author of A Japanese Menagerie: Animal Pictures by Kowanabe Kyosai (2006).
Over the course of the Edo period (1600-1868), an extraordinarily large quantity of paintings, prints and illustrated books with sexual and erotic themes was produced in Japan. As urban culture expanded rapidly during the seventeenth century, erotic material was a major genre of woodblock print production. These constitute some of the finest examples of art-printing in Japan, employing deluxe materials and special printing effects. This book looks at pictures by some of the most renown artists, such as Kitagawa Utamaro and Katsushika Hokusai, who produced erotic imagery as a standard part of their work. When creating erotica, artists often played on sexual situations in everyday life: a wife catches her husband having sex with a maid, mice start copulating in imitation of humans. Erotic encounters in Edo-period woodblock prints reflect multiple perspectives male, female, heterosexual and homosexual. Japanese erotic art is also notable for its tone of humour, much more so than in Wester
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