description: Sex and the Floating World offers and entirely new assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints known as shunga. Shunga prints are unusual in that they are overtly about sex. The author takes us into the strange world of sexual fantasy in Edo-period Japan, investigating the tensions in class and gender experienced by those who made - and made use of - shunga.
language: English
title: Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan, 1700-1820
titlecomplete: Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan, 1700-1820
genres: Japan, Nonfiction, Sexuality, Art, History
ratings_count: 57
publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr