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[[Image:Miyagawa Issho - Shunga emaki.jpg|right|thumb|300px|An early section from a ''shunga'' handscroll painting by [[Miyagawa Issho|Miyagawa Isshô]], c. 1750.]]
[[Image:Miyagawa Issho - Shunga emaki.jpg|right|thumb|300px|An early section from a ''shunga'' handscroll painting by [[Miyagawa Issho|Miyagawa Isshô]], c. 1750.]]
*''Other Names'': 笑絵 ''(warai-e)''
*''Japanese'': 春画 ''(shunga)''
*''Japanese'': 春画 ''(shunga)''
Many ''shunga'' works cited classical poetry or reimagined scenes from classical texts such as the ''[[Genji monogatari]]'', or more recent stories such as those from kabuki plays; this was often done in a parodic or satirical mode, sometimes incorporating ''[[mitate]]'', but the textual quotations of classical poetry or prose were also often cited directly, without alteration.
Many ''shunga'' works cited classical poetry or reimagined scenes from classical texts such as the ''[[Genji monogatari]]'', or more recent stories such as those from kabuki plays; this was often done in a parodic or satirical mode, sometimes incorporating ''[[mitate]]'', but the textual quotations of classical poetry or prose were also often cited directly, without alteration.
''Shunga'' images also sometimes appeared within otherwise innocent guides to fashion, makeup, and hairstyling.
They were also referred to as ''warai-e'', or "laughing pictures," not because they were meant to be humorous, but with the meaning that they were set apart from the normal realm; they belonged to a cultural or conceptual space outside of the mundane realm of real-life propriety and duty.<ref>Jacqueline Berndt, “Manga and ‘Manga’: Contemporary Japanese Comics and their Dis/similarities with Hokusai Manga,” in ''Manggha'', Krakow: Japanese Art and Technology Center (2008), 7.</ref> While ''shunga'' or ''warai-e'' refers to the pictures themselves, or to single-sheet prints of such pictures, the terms ''shunpon'' (春本) and ''warai-hon'' (笑本) refer to books of such pictures.
==History==
==History==
[[Isoda Koryusai|Isoda Koryûsai]], active a century later (c. 1760s-1780s), is considered one of the chief ''shunga'' designers of his time.<ref>Lane. pp111-114.; [[Anne Nishimura Morse|Morse, Anne Nishmura]] et al. ''The Allure of Edo: Ukiyo-e Painting from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston'' (江戸の誘惑： ボストン美術館所蔵 肉筆浮世絵展, Edo no yûwaku: Bosuton bijutsukan shozô nikuhitsu ukiyoe ten). Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun-sha, 2006. p182. </ref>
[[Isoda Koryusai|Isoda Koryûsai]], active a century later (c. 1760s-1780s), is considered one of the chief ''shunga'' designers of his time.<ref>Lane. pp111-114.; [[Anne Nishimura Morse|Morse, Anne Nishmura]] et al. ''The Allure of Edo: Ukiyo-e Painting from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston'' (江戸の誘惑： ボストン美術館所蔵 肉筆浮世絵展, Edo no yûwaku: Bosuton bijutsukan shozô nikuhitsu ukiyoe ten). Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun-sha, 2006. p182. </ref>
===Decline & Disappearance===
The [[Meiji government]] issued an [[Ordinance Relating to Public Morals]] (''Ishiki kaii jorei'') in [[1872]] banning the sale or consumption of sexually explicit art. However, ''shunga'' fell into decline over the course of the [[Meiji period]] anyway, in part because of the rise of new forms of popular media, including photographs, and due to changing attitudes about fine art and high culture, among other factors.<ref>"[http://shunga.honolulumuseum.org/2014/index.php?page=5 Modern Love: 20th-Century Japanese Erotic Art]," Honolulu Museum of Art, exhibition website, accessed 1 Dec 2014.</ref>
==References==
==References==