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  • Victorian photography depicting striking lesbian lovemaking including 63 photographs
  • 23 rare kinbaku illustrations of women in distress by Shirou Kasama
  • the sensual art of comic book greats Frank Frazetta and Richard Corben with 100s of enticing pics
  • 292 blasphemous examples of the subversive dark art by the Chilean shock artist KerbCrawlerGhost
  • 74 shocking bdsm illustrations of the notorious Joseph Farrel
  • a selection of rare images of Joseph Farrel's work in which he releases all brakes (and therefore added to the Taboo section!)
  • the obscure kinbaku art of Japanese masters like Kita Reiko and Muku Youji 
  • the spanking lesbians and nipple pulling sensuality of Leone Frollo (100 Pics)
  • 123 riotous objects of desire of the contentious American artist Stu Mead
  • Aroldo Bonzagni's controversial The Secret Album including 36 examples of his bold erotica
  • the great influence of modern western erotic masters like George Grosz and Fernando Botero
  • 73 images of the leading erotic art by the Russian children's book illustrator Rojan
  • the legendary Italian comic illustrator Milo Manara
  • 156 of the most degrading bondage fantasies of Erich von Gotha
  • 84 examples of the erotic impressionism of the Australian illustrator Ashley Wood
  • the best Lowbrow sensuality of Todd Schorr
  • classical shunga art including rare erotic ghost paintings by Kuniyoshi
  • shunga with crazy lovemaking of barbaric foreigners and striking gay encounters
  • voyeuristic images of peeing and masturbating females in the Edo era
  • 33 explicit examples of busty sensuality in Michael Dowson's photography 
  • fascinating portraits of rare Japanese bondage artists like Maeda Juan and Katou Kahoru 
  • 97 surreal erotic fantasies by the masterful German artist Michael Hutter
  • rare preliminary sketches by the obscure femdom artist Bernard Montorgueil
  • 45 embarrassing images of ladies in distress by pin-up art legend Art Frahm
  • the bestiality fantasies of the French comics artist Georges Pichard
  • 48 amusing Russian and French postcards with erotic nods to the recipient
  • 69 of the best kinky crime and horror posters of Emanuele Taglietti
  • 44 erotic posters of the Italian illustrator Alessandro Biffignandi
  • the enigmatic black and white sensuality of Apollonia Saintclair (144 Pics)
  • the perverted beauty in the motel room nudes of Mark Maggiori
  • 59 mesmerizing bondage pin-ups of Hajime Sorayama
  • 31 rarely seen BDSM secrets of the obscure French illustrator Lusché
  • a rare portrait of the obscure Norwegian artist Sverre Bjorn Nielsen
  • 19th century photography portraying sadomasochism
  • a profound study of the subversive masterpiece Appetite for Destruction by Lowbrow art legend Robert Williams
  • 126 perverse visual secrets by the femdom specialist Jim of Germany
  • 60 vicious damsels in distress by the revered Swiss Jim
  • 47 sexy pulp covers of the Mexican illustrator Rafael Gallur
  • an explicit study of Will Santillo's masturbating females
  • 94 lesbian erotic fantasies by the American pin-up artist Rebecca Hap
  • 50 erotically charged images of Balthus's pubescent girls 
  • 66 seductive aviation pin-ups of Romain Hugault
  • 26 kinky pin-ups from Bambi Fontaine's pornographic art
  • a complete overview of Kunisada's first Genji masterpiece
  • 15 intimate portraits of representatives of the new erotic photography
  • the finest examples of ancient Chinese erotic paintings
  • rare Chinese erotica with intimate horse-riding Mongolians
  • the unparalleled hentai universe of Alexis Flower inhabited by uninhibited elves (161 Pics)
  • all the sensual covers (60+ pics) Margaret Brundage did in the 30s for the magazine Weird Tales and more
  • the extraordinary B&W photography of female beauty by Sanne Sannes and John Everard
  • 33 mesmerizing torture scenes by the kinbaku genius Ozuma Kaname
  • the ingenious moveable erotic toy prints (extendable dildo and trickster fox) by Meiji genius Kawanabe Kyosai
  • several ancient Chinese deflowering secrets
  • 56 explicit hentai fantasies by the best cum painter Calm 
  • the subversive self-examination of the photographer Natacha Merritt
  • extensive analyses of the best Pinku eiga films
  • the voluptuous palette of the Italian caricaturist Umberto Brunelleschi
  • Namio Harukawa's 187 mistresses suffocating their scrawny male slaves
  • 51 tantalizing enema watercolors of Julie Delcourt
  • many subversive examples of the scandalous photography of Irina Ionesco
  • 104 illustrations of homosexual and lesbian lovemaking by the Mexican artist Felix d'Eon 
  • the comic artist Yannick Corboz and 101 of his spicy salon girls
  • 132 violent examples of Druuna's sexual journey
  • the lively nude photography of Lowbrow artist Coop
  • 84 large-breasted pin-ups of the American illustrator Otis Sweat
  • passionate bondage photography of the tyrant Sugiura Norio
  • fascinating ballpoint fantasies of Shohei Otomo
  • the virtuoso erotica of the Argentinian comic art genius El Tomi
  • a fascinating study on Paul Binnie's 100 Shades of Ink of Edo
  • the secret erotic drawings of the medical illustrator Tom Poulton
  • the aesthetics of the shaven pubic mound of China Hamilton
  • a study of the excellent kinky art of the Master of the College Nurse
  • Tentacle erotica with 198 tantalizing images
  • a regularly updated selection of the best sensual artworks we come across (already 610 images!)
  • a special section dedicated to extraordinary shunga designs updated weekly
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EBook Playful Lesbian Girls As Portrayed in Classical Chinese Erotic Art

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Playful Lesbian Girls As Portrayed in Classical Chinese Erotic Art

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What's inside (35 pages)

  • More on the intriguing background of these lonely concubines
  • Larded with enticing images of secret lesbian rendezvous
  • Detailed descriptions of the paintings in the book
  • What is the story behind the painting of the two girls on the cover?
  • A rare scroll with twelve lesbian couples
  • A passionate poem dedicated to lesbian love-making in China
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The Complete Shunga Legacy of Katsushika Hokusai

    What's inside (47 pages - Normal price € 4,97)
    • The most extensive study on Hokusai's shunga on the net!
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    • Check out the background info of his best works
    • Covers all his contributions to shunga
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    • Find out about his influences
    • His most famous series
    • And much more....


    • Extra bonus content on Hokusai's Octopus design!

The Anatomy of Hokusai’s Rarest Shunga Series

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    Why is The Horny God of Izumo Hokusai's rarest series?
    • What are the intentions of the randy doctor in plate no.9?
    • What is the hilarious dialogue of the copulating street dogs about?
    • Why is one of the lover's collecting "body-fluids"?
    • What is the connection with the pop-artist Roy Lichtenstein?
    • Find out about the female "tormentor" and her three fatigued lovers!
    • Lots of interesting insights on the accompanying Japanese text!

The 25 Most Important Classical Shunga Artists (Vol. 1)

    What's inside (37 pages - Normal price € 3,97)

    • The most influential artists within the shunga genre from Moronobu to Masanobu
    • Who was the first known shunga master. And who his pupil was.
    • What the similarity was between Sugimura Jihei and Johannes Vermeer
    • Which artist was the first one to portray exaggerated genitalia
    • Who was the greatest ukiyo-e artist from the Kyoto area
    • Which artist was the biggest bon-vivant and married two prosititutes
    • And much more...!!

The 25 Most Important Classical Shunga Artists (Vol. 2)

    What's inside (31 pages - Normal price € 2,97)

    • The most influential artists within the shunga genre from Moronobu to Masanobu
    • Who was the first known shunga master. And who his pupil was.
    • What the similarity was between Sugimura Jihei and Johannes Vermeer
    • Which artist was the first one to portray exaggerated genitalia
    • Who was the greatest ukiyo-e artist from the Kyoto area
    • Which artist was the biggest bon-vivant and married two prosititutes
    • And much more...!!

The Sensual Metaphors in the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarter

    What's inside (35 pages - Normal price € 3,47)

    • More about Eisen's fascinating motives behind the books while enjoying the visual mastery of this ukiyo-e icon at the same time ... !!
    • All the 27 exciting illustrations displayed in Eisen's book series 'Konote-gashiwa (Child's Hands Oak)' including detailed descriptions
    • Background on the objects surrounding the intimate protagonists
    • Butterflies with phallus-shaped wings, flowers with phallus chalices (!)
    • A two-headed Paradise Flycatcher (!)
    • And much more...!!
EBook Takato Yamamoto Easternized Europe and The Country of the Rising Moon

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Takato Yamamoto - Easternized Europe and The Country of the Rising Moon

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    What's inside (49 pages)
      • 35 mesmerizing illustrations of Takato Yamamoto's art and the art that inspired him
      • horrifying themes including severed heads, rokurokubi, and other demons
      • Yamamoto's striking relation to Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley
      • his special connection with shunga art and its masters
      • the most striking revelation about the artist's work
      • the homosexual references in his painting Saint Sebastian
      • Yamamoto's fascination with Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
      • and much more... 
EBook The Secret Gay Art in Ancient Japan and China

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The Secret Gay Art in Ancient Japan and China

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    What's inside (113 pages)
      • The most comprehensive study on this specific subject ever published
      • 46 rare enticing illustrations of homosexual rendezvous as portrayed in shunga
      • 23 unique illustrations of gay encounters in classical Chinese paintings
      • Including many unique images not seen anywhere else
      • The origins and development of homoerotic shunga
      • Many new insights on both Japanese and Chinese gay erotica  
      • Detailed descriptions on dozens of prints and paintings
      • Differences between Japanese and Chinese views on the depiction of gay sex 
      • Gay fantasies as designed by Utamaro, Hokusai, Keisai Eisen, and many others
      • Gay parodies on the tales of Osome, Oshichi and Heike
      • A gay cyborg, hermaphrodites, horny monks, submissive actors
      • Striking examples of modern gay shunga
      • And much more sensual secrets...

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  • The S.A.P.I. is the ultimate knowledge bank when it concerns the PRICES of shunga masterpieces by the greatest ukiyo-e masters such as Utamaro, Kunisada, Hokusai, Chokyosai Eiri, Kuniyoshi, Keisai Eisen, Tomioka Eisen, Harunobu, Koryusai, Kyosai and many more...
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My first foray into university was in the visual arts. I gave it up for other pursuits and later lived in Japan for ten years. It was there that I discovered hanga, Japanese wood block prints and then shunga, their hidden face. Since that time, I have pursued erotic art in all of its forms.


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The Shunga Gallery is a rare space. Content is uncensored. Censorship seems to be always lurking around the corner; it has been so for a long time. It does not matter what gets canceled, what censored content is: political, ideological, religious, sexual, censorship is always the same thing --- a scourge!


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If anyone is at all temped by joining the premium service, I would highly recommend it. It is always a pleasure when the email newsletters arrive in my inbox. Despite hours of surfing erotic art sites, I am always learning about new and fascinating artists. When I learned that there would be a premium service, there was never any doubt that I'd sign up. Anyone with an interest in Shunga art needs to join."

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Shunga Gallery’s premium site offers a quickly and steadily growing collection of articles across erotic art genres, rooted in classical Japanese shunga but with branches stretching as far as contemporary Western and Japanese art photography, pulp novel covers and comic books. The site doesn’t shy away from any part of the broad range of sexual expression and fantasy that art has depicted.


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Come love, let us write letters

Let the ink follow the C of your hip

Stroke in one quick gesture the W of your breasts

Tongue X on your neck, brow, ear and lips

Pause. Enter the Y of your legs, trace a question

Never tragic when you raise your hips

Explain how you knot a special carved tortoise shell to your ankle

Push past your labia lips shaped like puckering goldfish

Stain the dark wide tip

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