Comments on: Shunga: an Erotic Art First Admired, Then Prohibited https://pen-online.com/arts/shunga-an-erotic-art-first-admired-then-prohibited/ Creative stories from Japan. Pen [ペン] is the most influential Tokyo-based media house crafting original stories around arts, culture, food, travel, and design since 1997, through magazines, digital media, videos, and films. Thu, 02 Dec 2021 06:21:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.18 By: Japan’s ‘Ama’, Diving Into Fantasy and Reality — Cultured Collector | Global Fashion, Watches, Gastronomy, Culture Trends https://pen-online.com/arts/shunga-an-erotic-art-first-admired-then-prohibited/#comment-89 Tue, 10 Aug 2021 09:59:22 +0000 https://pen-online.com///#comment-89 […] image, with regard to the substance and form, represented in Hokusai’s famous engraving The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife (1814), is also linked to a legend carried into the late 19th century by Kokichi Mikimoto. […]

]]> By: Cultured Collector | ‘The Spirit of Pleasure’, a Glimpse into Eroticism in Japan https://pen-online.com/arts/shunga-an-erotic-art-first-admired-then-prohibited/#comment-34 Thu, 25 Mar 2021 04:00:02 +0000 https://pen-online.com///#comment-34 […] linked to sexual imagery. This is demonstrated by the low representation of fully naked bodies in erotic shunga engravings. Beneath the fabric, in what is hidden from sight, is where Japanese eroticism lies. This […]

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