Japanese Erotic Art - The Hidden World of Shunga by Ofer Shagan and Mark Halpern

Japanese erotic art, or shunga , has a long history, with thousands of high- quality paintings, prints, handscrolls and illustrated books produced by artists both celebrated and anonymous, mostly from the late seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Frequently explicit, but also tender, sensuous and humorous, even educational, shunga - a euphemism meaning picture of spring - celebrates all facets of human sexuality. In a dazzling diversity of images drawn from his own unrivalled collection.