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  • "If you are interested in Japanese art and especially Japanese woodblock prints, Shunga, Manga, Hokusai, the Octopus design ... etc ...." artscene

    Boing Boing 2009

  • "If you are interested in Japanese art and especially Japanese woodblock prints, Shunga, Manga, Hokusai, the Octopus design ... etc ...." artscene

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Shunga, porn and consumerism inspired eye candy by Barcelona based artist Bat Tao Lo

    Sex in Art » 2008 » February 2008

  • I am impressed but very surprised as I always saw thought Japanese might be very repressed about homosexuality although my discovery of Shunga some years ago should have told me they aren't exactly shy when it comes to erotica!

    Japan Trip April 9th (Day 9) Kobe: more Purikuna, Yuri/Yaoi, and I meet god! Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Shunga, porn and consumerism inspired eye candy by Barcelona based artist Bat Tao Lo

    Sex in Art » Bat Tao Lo 2008

  • "If you are interested in Japanese art and especially Japanese woodblock prints, Shunga, Manga, Hokusai, the Octopus design ... etc ...." artscene

    Boing Boing 2004

  • "If you are interested in Japanese art and especially Japanese woodblock prints, Shunga, Manga, Hokusai, the Octopus design ... etc ...." artscene

    Boing Boing 2004

  • The Shunga theme continues into life-size sculptures, such as Nurse Ko2, a leggy, busty verticality figure with a sexy uniform, or 3-Meter Girl, an absurdist composition that pushes form and content to extremes.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Evelyne Politanoff 2011

  • In Murakami's paintings such as Shunga: Gibbons and Shunga: Bow Wow, graphic depictions of exaggerated and engorged male and female genitals are set against delirious backgrounds of image and pattern.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Evelyne Politanoff 2011

  • Lust Caution, Ang Lee's movie about the Japanese occupation of China has scenes that feel like they're based on Japanese Shunga drawings

    theartblog roberta 2010

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