Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 244 x 294 mm, pp.: [1-4] 5-160.
Title-page (red and black): Japanese erotic prints | shunga | by Harunobu and Koryūsai | Inge Klompmakers | {logo} Hotei publishing | Leiden & Boston | 2008 ||
In this collection: Plate C.5, p. 88. [SVJP-0238.2018] Isoda Koryūsai. A shunga scene with a woman and two male partners, 1770-71.
Contents:
| Foreword |
| 1. The birth of shunga |
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Rise of a city culture |
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The floating world |
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The Yoshiwara pleasure quarter |
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17th-century Edo literature |
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Early erotic images |
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Formats |
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Erotic images of the Edo period |
| 2. Shunga: its functions, buyers and opponents |
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Education |
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Sexual arousal |
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Superstition |
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Shunga and the government |
| 3. Iconography |
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Complexity and humour |
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Symbols and attributes |
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(Body) language |
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Homosexuality |
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Nudity and dress |
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Fantasy or reality |
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Interiors within shunga |
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Voyeurism |
| 4. Harunobu and Koryusai |
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Suzuki Harunobu |
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Isoda Koryusai |
| Catalogue
Notes to the catalogue |
| Footnotes |
| Glossary |
| Bibliography |
| Acknowledgements |
