MetaFilter posts tagged with shunga

It aint the reading room, but its still pretty sweet

shothotbot — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:32:38 -0800

James Fenton writes in the Guardian that the entire "flat" collection of the British Museum is going into a searchable online index. Currently there are about 265,000 objects in the database with about 100,00 images. The article says that high quality images, suitable for print reproduction, and free to academic users, are coming soon. The search page is here. This looks like an excellent time sink. A few things I found: a cool day of the dead foil cutout that Dürer print of the Rhinoceros a broadside mocking the flight of the Congress after the fall of Philadelphia They have the 36 views of Mount Fuji. Coolness aside, and at the risk of being a straight man, isn't this the promise of the web?

nthdegx — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:18:57 -0800

ddf — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:42:20 -0800

Japanese Shunga & Other Erotica (NSFW) : "In these examples of Japanese shunga we see a great variety of lovemaking techniques, situations, positions and possibilities. Whether heterosexual or homosexual, the diversity of sexual behaviors expressed within this artform offer a glimpse of the sexual freedoms available in previous eras and cultures."