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2.  Clark, T., Gerstle, C., Yano, A., Ishigami, A. (2013) “Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art” The British Museum 

3.  Translation taken from: Higuchi, K., & Haft, A. (2013) “No Laughing Matter: A Ghastly ‘Shunga’ Illustration by Utagawa Toyokuni.” Japan Review, no. 26, pp. 239–255.

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8.  Translation taken from: Higuchi, K., & Haft, A. (2013) “No Laughing Matter: A Ghastly ‘Shunga’ Illustration by Utagawa Toyokuni.” Japan Review, no. 26, pp. 239–255. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41959826.

Figure 1. Suzuki Harunobu, Enshoku Mane’emon, 1770. International Research Centre for Japanese Studies

Figure 2. Utagawa Toyokuni, Vol. 2, illust. 8 of Oyogari no koe, 1822. International Research Centre for Japanese Studies

Figure 3. Katsushika Hokusai, 1930’s, Woodblock-printed oban, single print. Shagan, O. Japanese Erotic Art: The Hidden World of Shunga

Figure 4. Tosa Mitsusuke, head of the Tosa School Yobutsu-kurabe, 1675-1710. Hand-painted handscroll on silk, with gold

Figure 5. Katshushike Hokusu, Konsai-reimu-den, 1815. Woodblock-printed hanshi-bon

Figure 6. Katshushike Hokusu, Konsai-reimu-den, 1815. Woodblock-printed hanshi-bon

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Gerstle, C., & Clark, T. (2013) “Introduction.” Japan Review, no. 26, pp. 3–14. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41959814.

Higuchi, K., & Haft, A. (2013) “No Laughing Matter: A Ghastly ‘Shunga’ Illustration by Utagawa Toyokuni.” Japan Review, no. 26, pp. 239–255. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41959826.

Saito, K. (2011) “Desire in Subtext: Gender, Fandom, and Women's Male-Male Homoerotic Parodies in Contemporary Japan.” Mechademia, vol. 6, pp. 171–191. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41511578.

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