24.8 x 35.8 cm. (9.8 x 14.1 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

Oddly enough, this darkened setting is much closer to the way that much art of the past was originally seen: altarpieces, for example, standing luminously in gloomy chapels. And it is certainly the ...

Graphic depictions of enormous phalluses and acrobatic sex positions have long rendered centuries-old Japanese erotic art taboo, but a rare exhibition aims to prove the genre is a world apart from ...

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 ...

The notion “pleasure is our birthright” is celebrated in a daring exhibition of the traditional Japanese art of shunga–– erotic ukiyo-e woodblock prints from the Edo Period (1603–1867). The show, ...

TOKYO, Japan — 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 ...

In a dimly lit Noh theater tucked into the heart of Kabukicho, Tokyo’s red-light district and entertainment hub, 100 woodblock prints hang in quiet defiance of everything we think we know about sex ...

21.8 x 30.7 cm. (8.6 x 12.1 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

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 ...