Homosexual shunga

Gay

This category is all about sensual erotic art focussing on gay activities.

Gay Masterpieces in the Art Institute of Chicago

The Queer Erotic Canon: Desire, Disobedience, and the Art of Subversion

Homoerotic Masterpieces In the Prado Museum In Madrid

The Erotic Drawings of Scottish Artist Duncan Grant, the Talented Painter and Careless Lover

The Wakashū Paradise of Japanese Artist Hideki Koh

Awakening Eros as Seen by the Greek Painter Giorgos Nicolaou

Doodle Me Like These French Girls: The Cubist Intimacies of Louis Fratino

Jupiter With a Camera: Renaissance Beauty In The Art Of Tom Bianchi

The Erotic Drawings of "Sir Gay" Eisenstein, a Pioneer of Montage, Part Two

Rituals of Ancient Gay Shunga Erotica

Nishikawa Sukenobu

One notable vein of shunga is nanshoku, translating as ‘male colours’ and referring to gay erotic depictions. Images derived from ancient myth, the military, religion, theatre, class, and prostitution feature samurai or Buddhist monks engaging in gay sex with men often dressed as geisha.

Shunga, or Japanese erotic art, was prolific in Japan during the Edo period, from to Printed with woodblock and produced in a broad spectrum of colours and details, the scrolls were intimate, erotic, and sometimes humorous. The aesthetic is said to be influenced by the illustrations of Chinese medicine manuals as well as the work of Zhou Fang, a Chinese painter from the Tang dynasty era who painted oversized genitals, which later became characteristic of many shunga artists.

Roles and Rituals

The scenes contain a complex morality when considered by contemporary standards. The images often depict a sexuality derived from practices within monasteries when an older partner such as a priest or a monk would own sex with a yo

The Impact of the Male Gaze: Femininity and Female Sexuality in Shunga Prints of the Edo Period

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The Edo period of Japan () was a occasion of great cultural and economic growth as the land flourished from political stability under the Tokugawa clan’s verb for over two centuries. During this time, many prints, illustrated books, and paintings were created, the most celebrated of which are known as ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world.” A popular sub-genre of ukiyo-e were the erotic shunga prints, created by and primarily for men. While most of these prints were heterosexual in nature, there were still several works that depicted homosexual relations. The majority were of male homosexuality, but scenes of female homosexual sex are not uncommon. Many scholars have believed these images were created purely for male fantasy and posit that the employ of dildos is proof that they were not likely consumed by actual female homosexuals at the time. This thesis visually analyzes the erotic type Awabi Divers (s) by Katsushika Ōi (), Katsushika Hokusai’s illustration Manpuku Wagōji

Shunga, or "pictures of spring," as rings the metaphor in Japanese, is a subtle monicker for some of the least subtle erotic art on register. While most Japanese erotic art depicts men getting it on with women, a great deal shows gay affection. Homosexual shunga, of course, are not always explicit. Social scenes show us everyday life, where homosexual love is only hinted at, and much is left to the imagination.

Next on the ladder of gay love are images of courtship, through which we see the loaded display of emotions of men in love, or out of it: craving, lust, fear, tenderness, surprise, humor. Homosexual passion is not far behind. Japanese homoerotic art is replete with kissing and fondling between horny samurai and their apprentices, or even more often, kabuki actor youths moonlighting as gay prostitutes.

Perhaps most alien for western lovers of the erotic is the sheer exuberance of Japanese homoerotic art and the humor with which the rough gay sex or tender love making of shunga are depicted. Nothing is held back, on the contrary, everything is exaggerated and veils, sheets and