Shunga is a type of Japanese erotic art typically executed as a kind of ukiyo-e, often in woodblock print format. While rare, there are also extant erotic painted handscrolls which predate ukiyo-e. Tr
Two Lovers, Hokusai From The Adonis Plant (Fukujusō) Woodblock print, from a set of 12, ōban c. 1815
Couple in Winter shunga by Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1770
Torii Kiyonobu I. Woodblock. Shunga. 1703.
A soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army has relations with a Russian woman while a soldier of the same nationality watches from the ground, alluding to the Russo-Japanese War. 1905.
Kitagawa Utamaro was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of bea
Portrait by Eishi, 1815
Ase o fuku onna (Woman Wiping Sweat), Ukiyo-e, 1798
Takashima Ohisa using two mirrors to observe her coiffure
Ukiyo-e of yama-uba with blackened teeth and Kintarō (Yamanba and Kintaro Sakazuki series)