Special issue
Subtitle: Shunga : sex and humor in Japanese art and literature
By: edited by C. Andrew Gerstle and Timothy Clark
Contributors: Tinios, Ellis
Series: Japan review, journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies -- number 26, 2013; Japan review -- no. 26
Publisher: International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Kyoto, Japan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Japanese Erotic prints; Japanese Color prints; Erotic art
Other titles: Shunga :; Sex and humor in Japanese art and literature
Notes: Title from caption.

Special issue of Japan Review: journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, number 26, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / C. Andrew Gerstle and Timothy Clark; title: 1). Reception. Who were the audiences for shunga? / Hayakawa Monta. The reception of shunga in the modern era: from Meiji to the pre-WWII years / Ishigami Aki; title: 2). Context and format. Historiography of the "Phallic contest" handscroll in Japanese art / Akiko Yano. Japanese illustrated erotic books in the context of commercial publishing, 1660-1868 / Ellis Tinios; title: 3). Shunga in Kyoto and Osaka. Affirming the life erotic: Yoshida Hanbei's Kōshoku kinmō zui (1686) / Alfred Haft. Allegories of love / Jennifer Preston. Nishikawa Sukenobu: one hundred women, two stories, and a reconsideration / Amaury A. García Rodríguez. Tsukioka Settei's erotic painting / Yamamoto Yukari. Analyzing the outrageous: Takehara Shunchōsai's shunga book Makura dōji nukisashi manben tamaguki (Pillow book for the young, 1776). Intertextual divertisement, sexual education and entertaining humor: the world of Onna enshi kyōkun kagami; title: 4). Kabuki and violence in Edo shunga. Kabuki actors in erotic books (Shunpon) / Matsuba Ryōko. No laughing matter: a ghastly shunga illustration by Utagawa Toyokuni / Higuchi Kazutaka; title: 5). Modern transformation. Shunga in the Meiji era: the end of a tradition? / Rosina Buckland.