[PDF] Sex And The Floating World eBook

Author : Timon Screech
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781861894328

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During the Edo period in eighteenth-century Japan, erotic paintings and prints known today as shunga were popular among both men and women. Yet, prior to Tim Screech’s definitive study, Sex and the Floating World, no one had attempted to situate these overtly sexual images within the contexts of the sexual, gender, or class tensions of the time. Newly revised and expanded, this second edition of Sex and the Floating World examines how and why these images were made and used. Along the way, Screech illuminates a provocative world of sexual fantasy in Edo Japan. ‘With concern, proportion, wit and a bit of levity, the author of this authoritative and invaluable contribution to scholarship has given us the book for which we have long waited.”—Japan Times “Screech provides a fascinating and informative introduction to the social and sexual habits of pre-modern Japan, copiously illustrated and full of witty anecdotes as well as solid scholarly research. The ideal bedtime read?”—Insight Japan

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2012-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307829065

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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "floating world"—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.

Author : Timothy Clark
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780714124766

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In early modern Japan, thousands of sexually explicit paintings, prints, and illustrated books with texts were produced, euphemistically called spring pictures (shunga). Frequently tender, funny and beautiful, shunga were mostly done within the popular school known as pictures of the floating world (ukiyo-e), by celebrated artists such as Utamaro and Hokusai. Erotic Japanese art was heavily suppressed in Japan from the 1870s, and as a result it has only been made possible to publish unexpurgated examples in Japan within the last 20 years. This publication presents this fascinating art in its historical and cultural context, drawing on the latest scholarship and featuring over 400 images of works from major public and private collections.

Author : Stephen Longstreet
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1462921329

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Geishas and the Floating World returns readers to a lost world of sensuality and seduction, rich with hedonism, abandon, and sexual and personal politics. "Floating World" refers to Japan's traditional Geisha pleasure districts, but also to the artistic and literary worlds associated with them. At the heart of the "Floating World" and the system it supported was an extensive network of talented courtesans and entertainers, typified by the still fascinating, enigmatic Geisha. Stephen and Ethel Longstreet bring the reader on an in-depth tour of the original and most infamous red-light district in Japan--the Yoshiwara district of old Tokyo that underwent tremendous changes during the more than three centuries of its existence. Beyond the erotic allure the district held, the Yoshiwara also fostered a rich culture and a much studied and revered artistic and literary tradition. This account is adorned with examples of fine woodblock prints and quotations from often bawdy, and always colorful, original sources that offer a gripping portrait of life within the pleasure zone. Geishas and the Floating World balances scholarly insights with a master storyteller's flair for the exploits and intrigues of people operating outside the confines of polite society. Stephen Mansfield's new introduction bridges time, examining gender realities and the Yoshiwara through contemporary eyes, highlighting often overlooked subtleties and the harsh realities associated with this glittering world.

Author : Cecilia Segawa Seigle
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 14,92 MB
Release : 1993-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824814885

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Drawing on both historical and literary sources, examines life in the pleasure houses of Japan during the Edo period from the early 1600s to 1868. Among the topics are the origins, illegal competitors, the cost of a visit, the treatment of the courtesans, traditions and protocols, Yoshiwara arts, th

Author : Michelle Lovric
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 140884284X

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Venice, 1468. Sosia Simeon, a free-spirited sensualist, is the lover of many men in the fabled city, though married to one she despises. On the edge of the Grand Canal, Wendelin von Speyer sets up the first printing press in Venice and looks for the book that will make his fortune. When he tempts fate by publishing Catullus, the poet whose desperate and unrequited love inspired the most tender and erotic poems of antiquity, a scandal is set in motion that will change all their lives forever.

Author : Todd A. Shimoda
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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An illustrated novel of intrigue set in modern Japan for bookworms, computer geeks, & art lovers alike.

Author : Jonny Negron
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781942801948

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Jonny Negron's newest monograph collects the signature pinup illustrations that have gained him a cult following. Negron's art visualizes stylish ladies of all colors - hyper-sexual, curvy, and confident. These risqué compositions use suggestive humor and erotic situations to explore sexual taboos and comment on a mainstream, limited view of beauty.

Author : Gian Carlo Calza
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780714849966

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