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Sex and the Floating World. Erotic Images in Japan, 1700-1820.

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Book Description

Notes. Bibliography. List of illustrations. ' ... offers an entirely new assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints known as Shunga. Recent changes in Japanese law have at last enabled erotic images to be published without fear of prosecution ... Shunga prints are unusual in that they are overtly about sex'.
Dealer Notes
# 27629
Author Screech, Timon
Date 1999
Binding Soft covers.
Publisher Reaktion Books, London
Illustrator 148 Colour and black and white images in the text.
Condition A fine clean copy.
Pages 319pp. 23.5cm.

Price: £15.00

Offered by Peter Moore

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