KYOTO--Featuring erotic works created by some of the most celebrated ukiyo-e artists, the Hosomi Museum here is hosting its first “shunga” exhibition in eight years. Sponsored by The Asahi Shimbun and ...

"Shinjuku Kabukicho Shunga Exhibition" will display over 100 pieces of shunga art from the Edo period in a former Noh stage.

After much hand-wringing and controversy, the first-ever exhibition of traditional Japanese erotic art (shunga, literally 'spring pictures') in this country is finally happening. Spurred on by the ...

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 ...

Shunga is a significant genre of Japanese art that is sexually explicit. It was created between about 1600 and 1900, in large quantities, in the discrete formats of painted handscrolls, colour ...

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 ...

Afterwards, they were excluded from serious art studies and became a taboo. As a recent example, the article cites the case of a 1995 exhibit at the British Museum of works by Utamaro, which included ...

If you think pornhub is hardcore, you’re in for a shock. When I arrived at the Lacy Nook in Stoke Newington earlier this week, with the expectation of learning about Japanese erotic art at a supper ...

Queer Zagreb and HDLU (Croatian Association of Artists) present an exhibition of shunga woodblock prints from a private collection of curators Zvonimir Dobrovic and Bruno Isakovic. Over 100 works by ...

The museum's "Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art" is one of three shows on across Britain dedicated to traditional Japanese erotica, pleasure and Kabuki theatre from 1600 to 1900. The ...

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 ...