Poem of the Pillow and Other Stories: By Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and Other Artists of the Floating World

by Gian Carlo Calza

Book Overview

A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated study of traditional Japanese erotic art.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714871575
• ISBN13: 9780714871578
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.0" x 10.6"