Shunga is a Japanese 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 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.
Tomioka Eisen (1864 - 1905)
gorgeous. if i'm not mistaken it's derived from/related to the Chinese erotica, '春宮画'.
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