Shunga, or "images of spring," are erotic polychrome engravings painted by the masters of the Japanese Ukiyo-e school during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The shunga served as illustrations for love novels, instructive albums for young wives, and even lucky charms for warriors. This book is the first to present a special collection of rare, previously unpublished prints...(展开全部)

本の内容 浮世絵春画の図像を「誰が（Ｗｈｏ）、どこで（Ｗｈｅｒｅ）、いつ（（Ｗｈｅｎ）、何を（Ｗｈａｔ）、なぜ（Ｗｈｙ）、どのように（Ｈｏｗ）」の六つの観点で章立てし、戸浮世絵師の代表作を中心に紹介。 目次 Ｗｈｏ：多種多様な組み合わせ Ｗｈｅｒｅ：さまざまな場所で Ｗｈｅｎ：四季折々の風物にかこつけて Ｗｈａｔ：春情を誘う家具・道具 Ｗｈｙ：性にまつわる喜怒哀楽 Ｈｏｗ：さまざまな性戯

本の内容 浮世絵春画の図像を「誰が（Ｗｈｏ）、どこで（Ｗｈｅｒｅ）、いつ（（Ｗｈｅｎ）、何を（Ｗｈａｔ）、なぜ（Ｗｈｙ）、どのように（Ｈｏｗ）」の六つの観点で章立てし、戸浮世絵師の代表作を中心に紹介。 目次 Ｗｈｏ：多種多様な組み合わせ Ｗｈｅｒｅ：さまざまな場所で Ｗｈｅｎ：四季折々の風物にかこつけて Ｗｈａｔ：春情を誘う家具・道具 Ｗｈｙ：性にまつわる喜怒哀楽 Ｈｏｗ：さまざまな性戯

Frequently explicit, but also tender, sensuous and humorous, even educational, shunga – a euphemism meaning ‘picture of spring’ – celebrates all facets of human sexuality. Hugely popular in Japanese society, such depictions were regarded as entirely natural and are an expression of the refined, pleasure-seeking ‘floating world’ culture for which Edo-period Japan, 
when many of ...(展开全部)

Once slighted as mere copying from China, the arts of Japan are now seen as a unique alternation of advances and withdrawals. At times the islanders produced Chinese-style works of great beauty, unmatched on the continent. When they chose to be independent, their art differs at every level. Sculpture, and even more painting, are concrete, sensuous, and emotional, speaking direc...(展开全部)

Joshua A. Fogel is professor of history at York University, Toronto, and a specialist in the history of cultural and political ties between China and Japan in the modern era.

The modern histories of China and Japan are inexorably intertwined. Their relationship is perhaps most obvious in the fields of political, economic, and military history, but it is no less true in cultural and art history. Yet the traffic in artistic practices and practitioners between China and Japan remains an understudied field. In this volume, an international group of scho...(展开全部)

Financial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, drawing on his own deep experience, as well as observations from a cross section of Japanese citizenry, including novelist Haruki Murakami, former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, industrialists and bankers, activists and artists, teenagers and octogenarians. Through their voices, Pilling's Bending Adv...(展开全部)