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Shunga (春画) is a type of Japanese erotic art typically executed as a kind of ukiyo-e, often in woodblock print format. While rare, there are also extant erotic painted handscrolls which predate ukiyo-e. [ 1] Translated literally, the Japanese word shunga means picture of spring; "spring" is a common euphemism for sex.
The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife. The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife ( Japanese: 蛸と海女, Hepburn: Tako to Ama, " Octopus (es) and the Shell Diver "), also known as Girl Diver and Octopi, Diver and Two Octopi, etc., is a woodblock-printed design by the Japanese artist Hokusai. It is included in Kinoe no Komatsu ('Young Pines'), a three ...
Japan 1815–1823. Gouache painting. 1900–1999? There has been a long tradition of erotic painting in the East. India, Japan, Korea, China, Persia and other lands produced copious quantities of art celebrating the human faculty of love. The works depict love between men and women as well as same-sex love.
Ukiyo-e[ a] is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica. The term ukiyo-e ( 浮世絵 ...
In the land of Hello Kitty, kawaii (“cute”) culture and the Neo-Pop art of 1990s Japan, Tetsuya Ishida was an outlier. The surrealist artist, who died in 2005 aged 31, wasn’t a loner ...
Kiyohara Yukinobu struck out on a path in the late 17th century that few women in Japan had navigated, becoming an accomplished artist in the Kanō school — and, for a century after, was name ...
Masao Matsumoto, 108, and his 100-year-old wife, Miyako, have been married since October 1937 and welcome their 25th great-grandchild last month.
25.7 cm × 37.9 cm (10.1 in × 14.9 in) The Great Wave off Kanagawa(Japanese: 神奈川沖浪裏, Hepburn: Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura, lit. 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa')[a]is a woodblock printby Japanese ukiyo-eartist Hokusai, created in late 1831 during the Edo periodof Japanese history. The print depicts three boats moving through a storm-tossed ...