Sex and the floating world
Subtitle: erotic images in Japan, 1700-1820
By: Timon Screech.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Erotic art -- Japan; Ukiyoe; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
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."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-312).