Female pleasure takes center stage at a Tokyo exhibition showcasing around 150 pieces of shunga — an erotic form of "ukiyo-e" drawings and woodblock prints that flourished in Japan's Edo period.

Female pleasure instead takes centre stage at the Tokyo exhibition showcasing around 150 pieces of shunga -- an erotic form of "ukiyo-e" drawings and woodblock prints that flourished in Japan's Edo ...

Despite their seedy image, shunga represents the craftsmanship of some of Japan's finest ukiyo-e artists, such as Hokusai and Kitagawa Utamaro, encapsulating their humour and techniques. Even with the ...

In Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Atami, several museums house masterpieces of ukiyo-e, Japanese prints from the Edo period that ...

Known as tonbo in Japanese, dragonflies are everywhere in Japan at the end of the summer and early autumn. Step into a park, like Tokachi Hills, or stroll through the countryside and you’re likely to ...

This photo taken on August 19, 2025 shows a visitor viewing displays at an exhibition of old Japanese "shunga" art, erotic "ukiyo-e" drawings and woodblock prints that flourished in Japan's Edo period ...

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 ...

Introduction : Utamaro, Ukiyo-e and the city of prints -- Constructing the artist known as Utamaro -- 'Pictures of beauties' and other social physiognomies -- Behind the brocade and other Yoshiwara ...

TAIPEI – Situated on the second floor of a nondescript building in Taipei’s Fujin Street is Words, a print and stationery shop where the air smells faintly of paper and ink. It is the sort of place ...

Stability is a thing of the past at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which this past week fired its director of dance programming, Jane Raleigh, as well as two other full-time dance ...