tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3978356575024193756.post3970567958421044167..comments2023-05-12T04:46:21.921-07:00Comments on DARUMA MUSEUM (02) ... DARUMA ARCHIVES: ShungaGabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3978356575024193756.post-58589600763346777212018-01-22T21:02:46.355-08:002018-01-22T21:02:46.355-08:00Poem of the Pillow and other stories
Gian Carlo Ca...<b>Poem of the Pillow and other stories<br />Gian Carlo Calza</b><br /><br />An intimate, provocative collection of the most famous and infamous scenes and stories of sensual pleasure told by the masters of Japanese erotic art – now available in paperback<br />.<br />Poem of the Pillow and Other Stories examines the artistic developments of Japanese erotic art from the ukiyo-e period, dating from the mid-seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. Known by the delicate euphemism of Shunga or ‘spring images’, these pictures were hugely popular and admired, and are today highly collectable works of art.<br /><br />This book illustrates major Shunga works from important ukiyo-e masters such as Utamaro, Hokusai, Harunobu, Kunisada, Kuniyoshi and many others. World-renowned scholar Gian Carlo Calza defines these fascinating erotic works in their social, historical and artistic context, providing a broad overview of a subject that is extremely nuanced and intriguing. Beautifully illustrated with over 300 images, including woodblock prints, scrolls and paintings, this book is a perfect introduction to ukiyo-e erotic art.<br />.<br />PHAIDON <br />.<br />Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3978356575024193756.post-8633546588530587812016-10-30T18:30:41.854-07:002016-10-30T18:30:41.854-07:00wagoojin 和合神 Wago-Jin - Deity of conjugal harmony ...<b>wagoojin 和合神 Wago-Jin - Deity of conjugal harmony </b><br />and<br />葛飾北斎 萬福和合神 Manpuku Wago-Jin<br />石上阿希 Ishigami Aki<br />An illustrated book about all kinds of lovers . . .<br />.<br />http://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.jp/2011/09/kesobumi-love-letter.html<br />.Gabi Greve - Darumapediahttp://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.jp/2011/09/kesobumi-love-letter.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3978356575024193756.post-35822793278451472472015-10-24T01:08:24.472-07:002015-10-24T01:08:24.472-07:00continued
While the works are indeed graphic, they...continued<br />While the works are indeed graphic, they reflect the same artistic and technical finesse of less risqué ukiyo-e. Couples caught in the act of lovemaking are rendered with bold outlines and colors, and the garments and blankets they teasingly lift are often decorated with highly intricate, beautiful patterns. Attention is not lost, either, on detailing the places where such lust-filled scenes occurred. One work by Hishikawa Moronobu that shows a samurai (identifiable by his sword) embraced by his wide-legged lover also features a wall painting of a grinning tiger and four bamboo trees; another by Suzuki Harunobu includes in its background a black-spotted cat on a porch eying a butterfly hovering above a bonsai tree. Next to the two interlocked figures is an open and inked notebook, suggesting that the vignette is part of a greater narrative.<br /><br />Many shunga were actually completed as stories conveyed in a series of scenes that progressively increased in intensity. Regarded as one of the genre’s masterpieces, Kitagawa Utamaro’s 1788 “Poem of the Pillow” contains 12 erotic illustrations in one album. One extremely detailed scene shows lovers in the upstairs room of a tea house, wrapped in flimsy patterned fabrics as they embrace one another. You can catch a glimpse of the man’s right eye, fixed on the features of the woman, who is turned resolutely away from us. It’s an affectionate moment that makes us highly aware of our voyeurism, but Utamaro has included one hint that the couple is aware of the viewer: the man holds out a fan with a poem written on its folds. Its beak caught firmly in the clamshell, the snipe cannot fly away on an autumn evening, it reads.<br /><br />While shunga appeared mostly as ukiyo-e, some images were also painted on hand scrolls, such as Torii Kiyonaga’s 1785 “Handscroll for the Sleeve.” The long, narrow scroll enabled its owner to roll up the 11 images and tuck them into his sleeve to carry around, according to Clark. Like Utamaro’s illustration, Kiyonaga’s also exemplifies how shunga capture moments of intimacy as much as they depict physical acts. In one scene, a couple gazes with intensity into each other’s eyes, the privacy of the moment emphasized by the closely cropped image. The man places his fingers to his mouth, suggestive of the pleasure his lover will soon receive, which “gives a real idea of the mutuality of shunga — how it’s pleasure for women as well as pleasure for men,” as Clark says. <br />Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3978356575024193756.post-85411833771841249542015-10-24T01:07:08.667-07:002015-10-24T01:07:08.667-07:00Shunga exhibition
Intricate, Beautiful, Raunchy: J...<b>Shunga exhibition<br />Intricate, Beautiful, Raunchy: Japan Embraces Its Ancient Erotic Print Tradition, an exhibition: <br />The first half of Shunga continues at Eisei Bunko Museum (1 Chome-1-1 Mejirodai, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan) through November 1. <br />The second half runs from November 3 through December 23. </b><br /><br />The exhibition is preceded in scope by only one other show, which opened at the British Museum in 2013 and drew close to 90,000 visitors in three months. Nearly half of the works on display at Eisei Bunko come from the British Museum, with the rest borrowed from various Japanese museums and private collections. Open since mid-September, Shunga, too, is attracting so many people that organizers have been reporting heavy visitor congestion and 20-30-minute waiting lines. Despite the works’ popularity, their highly explicit nature is the chief reason behind their limited display in museums: as Japan Today notes, finding sponsors for large shunga exhibitions is difficult, and curators often express worry about public complaints. Ten establishments turned down requests to host Shunga before Eisei-Bunko offered its space, and the exhibit is restricted to museum-goers 18 years old and up (the British Museum advised parental guidance for those under 16).<br /><br />These works have historically been taboo, with the Japanese government issuing an edict in 1722 that banned their production during much of the Edo period. Of course, they continued to emerge — often unsigned — and were widely circulated in Japan, although to Western eyes they were often regarded as pornographic.<br /><br />As British Museum curator Tim Clark explained, it is likely that “everybody in Japanese society, from the ruling class down to the ordinary townsperson down in the street, used and enjoyed shunga. This is a situation that would have been inconceivable in Europe at the same time. In the West we’ve come up with this rigid division between what we define as art on the one hand and what we declare to be obscene or pornographic on the other.” <br /><br />http://hyperallergic.com/240689/intricate-beautiful-raunchy-japan-embraces-its-ancient-erotic-print-tradition/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Most+Endangered+Heritage+Sites+of+2016+from+Cuban+Art+Schools+to+the+Oldest+Underwater+City&utm_content=The+Most+Endangered+Heritage+Sites+of+2016+from+Cuban+Art+Schools+to+the+Oldest+Underwater+City+CID_8194f70925f8b96914f4d6bffbbabb05&utm_source=HyperallergicNewsletter&utm_term=Intricate%20Beautiful%20Raunchy%20Japan%20Embraces%20Its%20Ancient%20Erotic%20Print%20Tradition<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3978356575024193756.post-56449668024922232552015-06-13T21:50:50.895-07:002015-06-13T21:50:50.895-07:00貸本の底に春画や夏の午後
kashihon no soko ni shunga ya natsu n...貸本の底に春画や夏の午後<br />kashihon no soko ni shunga ya natsu no gogo<br /><br />below the rental books<br />there are the Shunga -<br />afternoon in summer <br />.<br /><b><br />book lenders in Edo </b><br />Gabi Greve - Darumapediahttp://edoflourishing.blogspot.jp/2015/06/kashihonya-lending-books.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3978356575024193756.post-75281711923987288502014-12-20T16:59:24.165-08:002014-12-20T16:59:24.165-08:00Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art
Timoth...<b>Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art </b><br /><br /> Timothy Clark (Author, Editor), C.Andrew Gerstle (Editor), Aki Ihigami (Editor), Akiko Yano (Editor) <br />.<br />see amazon com<br />In early modern Japan, 1600 1900, thousands of sexually explicit paintings, prints, and illustrated books with texts were produced, known as spring pictures (shunga). This catalogue of a major exhibition at the British Museum marks the culmination of a substantial international research project and aims to answer some key questions about what shunga was and why it was produced. In particular the social and cultural contexts for sex art in Japan are explored. Drawing on the latest scholarship from the leading experts in the field and featuring over 400 images of works from major public and private collections, this landmark book looks at painted and printed erotic images produced in Japan during the Edo period (1600 1868) and early Meiji era (1868 1912). <br /><br />Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3978356575024193756.post-47635283784584501092013-12-25T21:16:04.512-08:002013-12-25T21:16:04.512-08:00EDO
fuuzoku, fûzoku 風俗 Fuzoku, entertainment and...EDO <br /><br />fuuzoku, fûzoku 風俗 Fuzoku, entertainment and sex business <br />.<br />Gabi Greve - Edopediahttp://edoflourishing.blogspot.jp/2013/12/fuuzoku-business.htmlnoreply@blogger.com