Entitled ‘ A Small Love Story: The World of Mameban Shunga ’, the exhibition is on until March 15 and features some 300 mameban shunga curated by Yasutaka Hayashi of artist collective Chim↑Pom from ...

Director Junko Hirata delves deep into the history and influence of the pornographic art form without cheap tittering at its illicit imagery. Shunga is one of the most pleasantly surprising nonfiction ...

JAPAN - Edo period (1603-1868), 19th century Ink, colors and gold on paper, Daimyo shunga scroll, eight couples in various erotic positions including a woman smoking a pipe, their kimono untied beside ...

Image: 10.63 x 15.75 in. (27 x 40 cm.) Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki is known for his erotic images influenced by Edo period Shunga (erotic art), and Japan’s contemporary sexual subcultures.