Definitions
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- noun A style of Japanese
erotic art
Etymologies
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Examples
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Many famous ukiyo-e print-makers and painters contributed to this immensely popular genre, known as shunga or "spring pictures."
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And in those moments shame would suffuse him; precisely the same kind of shame he had felt when his older brother, Gotaro, had found him sitting, sexually aroused by their father's book of shunga, erotic prints.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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By the way, in the proud Japanese traditional popular art of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints from the Edo period), there were many works with sexual subjects, called shunga.
Anime Nano! 2010
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And for a name …. maybe "ramegshunga" (for RApidshare MEGaupload SHUNGA), shunga is a Japanese term for erotic ukiyo-e images, the classic woodprints.
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Fraubmarm Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 07: 45 AM EST rhinestone license plate cover orig japanese shunga print
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" He gestured then at the carpets, French Colonial furniture, sumi scrolls, Meiji-era bronze okimonos, Thai and Burmese wooden buddhas, Shojo Noh masks, pornographic netsukes (shunga), and shelves of fine books.
Villa Incognito Robbins, Tom 2003
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