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British Museum Mounts Exhibition of Sexually Explicit Japanese Shunga Art 1 October 2013 • Share — Thousands of 'spring pictures' or shunga, art were produced in Japan between 1600-1900. Now the British Museum has compiled a comprehensive exhibition of this sexually explicit work.


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An exhibition in 2013 at the British Museum, Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art, helped pave the way for showing these works in the country of their origin.About half of the pieces at the Eisei-Bunko Museum were also in that 2013 show. Works by Kitagawa Utamaro, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Hokusai Katsushika, and other ukiyo-e masters demonstrate that far from being an unusual or unknown genre.


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Despite its prolificity, shunga has remained an outlier in the study and exhibition of ukiyo-e until recent decades, where it has increasingly been the subject of academic interest and institutional collecting internationally. 1 Major recent presentations include the British Museum's landmark exhibition and catalogue of significant new.


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Shunga by The British Museum Images stock photo and image search. Get in touch with us via email or license your images directly through the website. Every purchase supports the British Museum. Refine results 167 results for shunga Popup Preview Results/page 01613796738 Lovers and bathtub, print, shunga, Edo 01613796739


The British Museum Shunga RoxanneSilverwood

Exclusive to the British Museum, a silk scarf featuring a scene from Kitagawa Utamaro's Poem of the Pillow (1788).. The image repeated on this printed silk scarf is a section from an image entitled Lovers in an upstairs room, and shows a tender moment between a couple.The main frames are bordered by motifs of bamboo, leaves, and patterns from the lovers' robes.


The British Museum Shunga RoxanneSilverwood

622 677K views 10 years ago Discover Japanese art like no other. Explicit and beautifully detailed, these works, produced between 1600 and 1900, have continued to influence manga, anime and.


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shunga print Museum number 1981,0813,0.1.1 Title Object: Object: (Shunka shuto) Shiki no nagame (春夏秋冬) 色の詠 (In Praise of Love (in the Four Seasons)) (In Praise of Love (in the Four Seasons)) Description Illustrated book. Vol. 1 of four volumes. Erotic scenes. Woodblock-printed. Producer name Print artist: Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)


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Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art, British Museum, review The British Museum's new exhibition on Japanese erotica is a mixture of artistic sensibility and imagery that leaves nothing.


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Description Colour woodblock print, shunga. Young female-role Kabuki actor (onnagata) and his client making love at a tea-house near the kabuki theatre, as Mane'emon holding a kite watches them. Producer name Print artist: Suzuki Harunobu (鈴木春信) Author: Komatsuya 小松屋 Published by: Nishimuraya Yohachi (西村屋与八) School/style Ukiyo-e School


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Description Hand-coloured woodblock print, shunga. Lovers on a veranda in autumn, with maple tree, stream and full moon. Poem above. Producer name Print artist: Okumura Masanobu 奥村政信 Production date 1740 (circa) (circa) Production place Made in: Japan Asia: Japan Materials paper Technique hand-coloured woodblock Dimensions


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Category:Shunga in the British Museum From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository Subcategories This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. B Book of Acolytes ‎ (47 F) H Haikai Book of the Cuckoo ‎ (20 F) I In Praise of Love (in the Four Seasons) ‎ (146 F) P Painting, handscroll, shunga (BM 1980,0325,0.1) ‎ (5 F)


The British Museum Shunga RoxanneSilverwood

Having been undermined by censorship, the first major shunga exhibition in Japan only took place in 2015, when the Eisei-Bunko museum in Tokyo hesitantly agreed to host it following the success of similar exhibitions at the British Museum in 2013 and 2014. 1 Michael Pronko, "A First for Japan: Shunga at the Eisei-Bunko Museum," 美術館.


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Description Shunga; handscroll. Nineteenth-century copy of the oldest and most famous Japanese depiction of male-male sexual relations (nanshoku), dated 1321 and preserved at Sanbo-in, Daigo-ji temple, Kyoto.


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3 October 2013 - 5 January 2014. Shunga meaning "spring pictures" were produced between1600 and 1900 by the artists of the ukiyo-e or 'floating world' school. The images are explicit in nature but are often tender and humorous too. They were banned in Japan during the 20th century but were revered and inspired artists such as Toulouse.