How can you go wrong with wood-block prints that capture the pleasures of the "Floating World"? It is a long-ago vanished world that is all the more beautiful because it knew it was a vanishing world.
GIVEN Japan’s vast and barely concealed sex industry, it seems odd that a clutch of old woodblock prints known as shunga still has the power to shock. Shunga means “spring pictures”. They depict ...
11 x 14.5 in. (27.9 x 36.8 cm.) 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, ...
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 ...
The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...
The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...
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