Shunga Bijinga Erotica

Author : Bob Bentley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957627550
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shunga + Bijinga = Erotica written by Bob Bentley and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the Japanese art of Shunga and Bijinga from the mid 1700s to the mid 1950s. Shunga is Japanese for 'spring pictures' but means 'erotic art'. The translation of Bijinga is 'pictures of beautiful people' meaning women, commonly referred to as 'beauties'. There is a link between them, as both are sexual in nature, with many pictures being of courtesans, or women as subjects of desire. But there is a lot more to it than that! This is not an academic book but more a personal journey of discovery by an accidental collector of Japanese woodblock prints. Bob Bentley informs, entertains and hopefully inspires like-minded fellow travelers embarking on similar explorations. The illustrations show a fascinating culture which thrived in the period when Japan was isolated from the rest of the world up to a time when the style and beauty of its art eventually exploded into the Western imagination. Bob has acquired a number of rare and original prints, as well as the more affordable, including re-prints, some almost as wonderful. The book is based purely on his collection - with delicate prints reproduced in high quality - imperfections and all. Many are exquisite works of art. This is a demonstration of the art that many people can acquire - at one level or another. Although there may be several hand made prints available of the same image, no two are identical. In buying prudently, you will see how it is possible to enjoy originals of the greatest artists, alongside beautifully crafted reprints. Here is a real passion, expressed in clear language, demystifying a culture that has provided the world with some of the most glorious art that has ever been seen.

Author : Majella Munro
Publisher : ER Books
ISBN 13 : 1904989543
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Shunga written by Majella Munro and published by ER Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sumptous guide explains the cultural forces behind Shunga images and why the Japanese find them so erotic. It also reveals the influence of Shunga on great Western art movements such as Impressionism. Exquisitely and abundantly illustrated, this is the most comprehensively informative book ever to be written on the subject - truly a masterclass'.'

Author : Gabriele Mandel
Publisher : Crescent
ISBN 13 : 9780517417980
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shunga written by Gabriele Mandel and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1983 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : 白倉敬彦
Publisher : PIE Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 日本の図像 written by 白倉敬彦 and published by PIE Books. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Japanese eroticism by Ukiyo-e artists. A new volume in the Traditional Patterns series, this book features Shunga, a type of Ukiyo-e that is made using the finest Japanese woodblock print techniques and portrays the erotic expressions of men and women; and the pleasure, the pain, and the beauty of the human body. This Japanese erotic art was made by all Ukiyo-e artists and was usually more profitable than "normal" art during the Edo period. It is believed that Shunga, literally "springtime picture," originated from Chinese medical books. It was not only intended to provide the fun that comes from viewing erotic images, but also the book could be held as a charm against evil. Shunga was also used as textbooks for the sexual education of young men and women. Because there were fewer restrictions on Shunga, ukiyo-e artists used a variety of colors usually not seen in usual woodblock prints. Only the best techniques of Ukiyo-e are found in Shunga. This glorious volume features works from the Edo period to the present. Including works by Ukiyo-e artists such as Hishikawa Moronobu, Kitagawa Utamaro, Utagawa Kunisada, Katsushika Hokusai, this Japanese "kama sutra" manages to be erotic, artistic, and fun all at the same time.

Author : Richard Illing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500530238
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Erotic Art and the Life of the Courtesan written by Richard Illing and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shawn Eichman
Publisher : Skira
ISBN 13 : 9780847843794
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shunga written by Shawn Eichman and published by Skira. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous presentation devoted to the art of Japanese eroticism, drawn from the Honolulu Museum of Art's rare and distinguished collection. The Japanese paintings and prints called shunga (literally "spring pictures") reflected the thriving sexual culture of early modern Japan and depicted with sensitivity and nuance the private lives of various social types, from courtesans and Kabuki actors to ordinary townspeople. Organized around a series of exhibitions at the Honolulu Museum of Art, this sumptuous volume presents art from the museum's vast holdings of ukiyo-e prints, woodblock-printed books, and paintings, particularly those originating from the collections of scholar Richard D. Lane and famed author James A. Michener. These fascinating works, dating from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, explore Japan's sexual culture (including issues of gender and the country's ever-evolving sex industry) with humor as well as a surprisingly sophisticated literary and art-historical approach. Sure to become a collector's item, this gorgeously designed publication offers stunning color plates showcasing numerous and unusual examples of exquisite Japanese erotica. Texts by leading scholars of shunga and ukiyo-e complete this treasure album of a book.

Author : Chris Uhlenbeck
Publisher : Brill Hotei
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Erotic Fantasies written by Chris Uhlenbeck and published by Brill Hotei. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first modern study on Japanese erotic print art (so called shunga) and shows highlights from the oeuvre of Kitagawa Utamaro, Katsushika Hokusai, Suzuki Harunobu, Utagawa Kunisada, Utagawa Kuniyoshi and many others. Various essays written by international experts describe this fascinating genre in its social, historical and artistic context, discussing themes like homosexuality, voyeurism, life in Edo's brothels, techniques of composition etc.

Author : Timothy Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714124766
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shunga written by Timothy Clark and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early modern Japan, thousands of sexually explicit paintings, prints, and illustrated books with texts were produced, euphemistically called spring pictures (shunga). Frequently tender, funny and beautiful, shunga were mostly done within the popular school known as pictures of the floating world (ukiyo-e), by celebrated artists such as Utamaro and Hokusai. Erotic Japanese art was heavily suppressed in Japan from the 1870s, and as a result it has only been made possible to publish unexpurgated examples in Japan within the last 20 years. This publication presents this fascinating art in its historical and cultural context, drawing on the latest scholarship and featuring over 400 images of works from major public and private collections.

Author : Timon Screech
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861890306
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex and the Floating World written by Timon Screech and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an entirely new assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints today known as shunga. Recent changes in Japanese law have at last enabled erotic images to be published without fear of prosecution, and many picture books have since appeared in Japan. There has, however, been very little attempt to situate the imagery within the contexts of sexuality, gender or power. Questions of aesthetics, and of whether shunga deserve a place in the official history of Japanese art, have dominated, and the question of the use of these images has been avoided. Timon Screech seeks to re-establish shunga in its proper historical contexts of culture and creativity. Sex and the Floating World opens up for us the strange world of sexual fantasy in the Edo culture of eighteenth-century Japan, and investigates the tensions in class and gender of those who made - and made use of - shunga.

Author : Bob Bentley
Publisher : Kahboom
ISBN 13 : 9780957627536
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pleasure of Rope written by Bob Bentley and published by Kahboom. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an amazing collection of real life Kinbaku performances originally filmed by Bob Bentley in London and Tokyo. It features internationally famous Kinbaku performers and models including:Kazami RankiAkira NakaGestaltaMidoriKinoko HajimeOsada SteveEsinemNawashi MurakawaNina RussGorgoneIroha ShizukiZaharaCloverWykd DaveAnd many others...