Shunga Gallery I

Shunga Gallery I

Coming upon much more 春画 / shunga, the Japansese erotic art of antiquity prone to make the contemporary stuff look tame, I though it time to make a few galleries of them, in addition to the earlier gallery. I should furnish you with a warning before you proceed – some of these images frankly put /d/ to shame in strangeness, and I reproduce uncritically as historical art illustrations which might otherwise be considered in less than exemplary taste.

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  • BuggyBY commented on July 14, 2008 00:44
  • Nice moe-ization of The Fisherman's Wife's Dream... More

Ancient Erotic Manga

Japan has a long and glorious history of erotic art, 春画 / Shunga, the predecessor to modern manga in the ukiyoe

Did you think tentacle porn was a recent development? Or, for that matter, erotic manga? Not at all, as Japan possesses a long and glorious history of erotic art going back centuries (as in fact do most cultures), called 春画 / Shunga, which flourished particularly during the reign of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

I came accross an interesting representative sample, and some of the themes may be familiar to you, though some are perhaps more bizarre than contemporary works (unless you spend much time on /d/, in which case these subjects will all be familiar to you). There is even an illustration of someone using an ancient dakimakura. I am mirroring most of the images below, though I leave the illustration of man and his faithful companion as a dubious incentive to visit the originating site, if you dare.

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  • BuggyBY commented on July 13, 2008 23:58
  • You can blame the Meiji people and their feeling of inferiority towards the west for that.... More

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