After much hand-wringing and controversy, the first-ever exhibition of traditional Japanese erotic art (shunga, literally 'spring pictures') in this country is finally happening. Spurred on by the ...

On September 19, the Eisei Bunko Museum in Tokyo bravely unveiled an exhibition of traditional Japanese erotic art called shunga. Despite the historical nature of the pieces, the art show doesn’t come ...

The museum's "Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art" is one of three shows on across Britain dedicated to traditional Japanese erotica, pleasure and Kabuki theatre from 1600 to 1900. The ...

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 ...

A woman is pleasured by an octopus, its tentacles teasing their way into her every orifice. A kitten paws eagerly at a man's testicles while he is locked in an embrace with his lover. Two women dally ...

Mid-coitus couples entwined in ways that would test a contortionist, their hugely exaggerated genitalia on full display; Buddhist priests seducing young male novices; women pleasuring each other with ...

Ronin Gallery is pleased to present our annual Valentine's Day exhibition THE ART of LOVE. Shunga, or as literally translated Spring Pictures are a genre of woodblock prints that depict the entire ...

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 ...

What is it? Works of a sexually explicit, unabashedly joyous nature, made by respected Japanese artists from 1600 to 1900. The Independent says: “Can hardcore pornography ever be considered art? Not ...