Socio-Cultural Context of Shunga

Abstract

Erotic images have been drawn or painted in every society since sexual drive is of important for surviving instinct in every living beings. The open means of thinking and expression about sex, more or less, by social and cultural conditions made Japanese shunga images one of the most interesting subject in the world of art. This article will survey the socio-cultural background of middle to late Edo period and how its influence on the art and their characteristics