Shunga is a Japanese term meaning "spring pictures" which include a tradition of erotic pictures
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Original Tomioka Eisen (1864 - 1905) Japanese Woodblock Print Antique Color Shunga print - ca. 1880
Submitted by Wayne on Sat, 2011-01-08 00:25.
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Shunga is a term literally meaning "spring pictures" and refers to a genre of ukiyoe pictoralizing the lives of the upper class and the floating world during the edo period.
It's a genre commonly misconceived in the Western world as just erotic pictures...
The most notable images have been erotic but it is not accurate to confine Shunga as a type of erotic art.
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