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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bosko69, post: 10273017, member: 16283&quot;]Beautiful Kraft ! The Japanese erotic woodblock print has a hallowed place in Japanese Art.One amazing Shunga is &#039;The Dream of the Fisherman&#039;s Wife&#039; by Hokusai, 1814.</p><p>Of course Japanese woodblocks influenced the European Impressionist movement,like African Art and Cubism.Can&#039;t imagine though most 19th Century Europeans embraced Shunga let alone displayed it !</p><p>From Wiki-&#039;Shunga was probably enjoyed by both men and women of all classes...we can deduce that samurai, chonin, and housewives all owned Shunga. All three of these groups would suffer separation from the opposite sex; the samurai lived in barracks for months at a time, and conjugal separation resulted from the <span style="color: #000000">sankin-kotai </span>system and the merchants&#039; need to travel to obtain and sell goods. It is therefore argued that this ownership of Shunga was not superstitious, but libidinous.&#039;</p><p>PS- Trippy find,I rarely if never bump into these outside of a bookstore or gallery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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