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The Hokusai Shunga art book presents the erotic works of Katsushika Hokusai, combining sensuality with playful humor across a wide range of compositions. Known as 'spring pictures', these works navigated government censorship to flourish within the urban culture of Japan's Edo Period. The edition compiles Hokusai's personal contribution to the shunga genre, offering a focused look at his distinctive approach to carnality and expression.
Known as shunga or “spring pictures”, the erotica of Katsushika Hokusai, Japan’s most celebrated artist, combined brash sensuality with playful humor to show carnality in the most varied constellations. This edition presents his own contribution to a genre that evaded government censorship to thrive in the vivid urban culture of Japan’s Edo Period.
