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 ...

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TOKYO — 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 ...

Japan’s adult movie industry is among the biggest in the world, and its range of pornographic manga is eclectic and ubiquitous. But it has taken centuries-old works of art for the country to challenge ...

Joyous and life-affirming: detail from 'Men with women in a bath house' by Isoda Koryusai (Japan, 18th century) Credit: Photo: ALAMY The Japanese erotic art called shunga is so explicit that the ...

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 ...

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 ...