Shunga is not for the faint-hearted. Still, given the glut of online smut, it seems odd that a collection of old Japanese woodblock prints still has the power to get pulses beating faster.

To show only one graphic shunga print, and for it to be one of the few prints in the exhibition not in color, is a bit disappointing. Ten or more shungas would have put a cherry on top of Fleeting ...

Shunga means “spring pictures”, “spring” being a Japanese euphemism for sex, and these woodblock prints, created using the same techniques as in Hokusai’s Great Wave and other leading ...

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 ...

Billed as the first proper shunga (spring pictures) exhibition in the country of the genre’s birth, the collection of 133 prints found a home at the Eisei Bunko Museum , but only after being ...

Shunga were first hand-painted and were enjoyed exclusively by Japan’s upper classes. Then from the 1700s techniques for mass-producing woodblock prints created thousands of new designs—and a ...

Delicately hand painted on paper, this intimate scene is an exceptional example of the Japanese art shunga. Shunga, a traditional Japanese term of erotic art, translates to "picture of spring", where ...

‘Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art’, to January 4, britishmuseum.org ‘The Night of Longing: Love and Desire in Japanese Prints’, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, to January 14 ...

A beautiful example of the Japanese art form known as shunga, this erotic drawing depicts a man and woman engaging in a sensual tease. Hand painted on paper with splashes of vivid gouache color, 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 ...