Japanese Erotic Fantasies
Title | Japanese Erotic Fantasies PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Uhlenbeck |
Publisher | Brill Hotei |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Art |
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This is the first modern study on Japanese erotic print art (so called shunga) and shows highlights from the oeuvre of Kitagawa Utamaro, Katsushika Hokusai, Suzuki Harunobu, Utagawa Kunisada, Utagawa Kuniyoshi and many others. Various essays written by international experts describe this fascinating genre in its social, historical and artistic context, discussing themes like homosexuality, voyeurism, life in Edo's brothels, techniques of composition etc.
Fantasies of Cross-dressing: Japanese Women Write Male-Male Erotica
Title | Fantasies of Cross-dressing: Japanese Women Write Male-Male Erotica PDF eBook |
Author | Kazumi Nagaike |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2012-05-03 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004227008 |
Male homosexual narratives in various genres and media—from “high-brow” literature by distinguished female authors to “pornographic” comic books produced and distributed by amateurs—have attracted the attention of a number of cultural critics in Japan and abroad. This book represents the first extensive critical attempt to examine Japanese women's narratives of male homosexuality/homoeroticism, addressing not only popular culture genres, but also the considerable body of critically acclaimed literary works (with English translations of the original works). The result is an in-depth analysis of the ways in which female fantasies of male homosexuality/homoeroticism may be composed, acknowledged, and interrogated.
A Sociology of Japanese Ladies' Comics
Title | A Sociology of Japanese Ladies' Comics PDF eBook |
Author | Kinko Itō |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Comic books, strips, etc |
ISBN | 9780773414204 |
Sociology of Japanese Ladies' Comics : Images of the Life, Loves, and Sexual Fantasies of Adult Japanese Women
Shunga
Title | Shunga PDF eBook |
Author | Bret Norton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Art, Japanese |
ISBN | 9789654941440 |
Stories, terms and extracts of illustrated scrolls, known as pillow books, that reflect the atmosphere of Shunga or Japanese eroticism.
Sex and the Floating World
Title | Sex and the Floating World PDF eBook |
Author | Timon Screech |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781861890306 |
This book offers an entirely new assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints today known as shunga. Recent changes in Japanese law have at last enabled erotic images to be published without fear of prosecution, and many picture books have since appeared in Japan. There has, however, been very little attempt to situate the imagery within the contexts of sexuality, gender or power. Questions of aesthetics, and of whether shunga deserve a place in the official history of Japanese art, have dominated, and the question of the use of these images has been avoided. Timon Screech seeks to re-establish shunga in its proper historical contexts of culture and creativity. Sex and the Floating World opens up for us the strange world of sexual fantasy in the Edo culture of eighteenth-century Japan, and investigates the tensions in class and gender of those who made - and made use of - shunga.
Love Hotels
Title | Love Hotels PDF eBook |
Author | Misty Keasler |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2006-11-30 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780811856416 |
Sex creates odd cultural conventions everywhere, but nowhere has an institution quite like the Japanese love hotel. To be rented by the hour for amorous liaisons, the theme rooms revealed in this provocative collection of photographs are steeped in fantasy, their elaborate dcor ranging from simulated subway cars to religious bondage with much kink in between. These brash rooms are fascinating in themselves, but also present a window into a very classified aspect of this society. The foreword by best-selling author Natsuo Kirino and passages from hotel guest books lend humor and context to these 80 haunting room portraits, creating an astonishing document of sex and romance, public and private space in Japan.
Shunga
Title | Shunga PDF eBook |
Author | Rosina Buckland |
Publisher | Harry N. Abrams |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-08-29 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781468306989 |
Featuring paintings, handscrolls, prints, and illustrated books of erotica produced in Japan between 1600 and 1900, Shunga showcases some of the finest examples of Japanese erotic art, created with opulent materials and special printing effects.