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 ...

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How can you go wrong with wood-block prints that capture the pleasures of the "Floating World"? It is a long-ago vanished world that is all the more beautiful because it knew it was a vanishing world.

Joyous and life-affirming: detail from 'Men with women in a bath house' by Isoda Koryusai (Japan, 18th century) Credit: Photo: ALAMY The Japanese erotic art called shunga is so explicit that the ...

Japan’s adult movie industry is among the biggest in the world, and its range of pornographic manga is eclectic and ubiquitous. But it has taken centuries-old works of art for the country to challenge ...

version of that masterpiece 'The Dream of the Fisherman ', which is famous as one of the woodblock prints in the glossy book 'Kinoe no Komatsu' by Katsushika Hokusai around 1820. I went to shoot at ...

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GIVEN Japan’s vast and barely concealed sex industry, it seems odd that a clutch of old woodblock prints known as shunga still has the power to shock. Shunga means “spring pictures”. They depict ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 19th-century France, Israel Goldman tells me, “Would you like to see my Japanese prints?” was a coded ...

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 ...