• Keisai EISEN

Maple leaf design kimono with Japanese lantern plant
(Momiji gara kosode to hozuki)
(1830-1843)

Essay

Interpreting Shunga scroll: sex and desire between women in Edo’s ‘floating world’

Pair of cups JAPANESE Spring rains Keisai EISEN Jain sage glass painting INDIAN Arhat figure CHINESE Dr Will Maloney John RUSSELL Derriere La Scene Shoichi HASEGAWA Hero and Leander Nicolas RÉGNIER Sugawa Michizane and attendant Totoya HOKKEI I'm here Kazumasa Nagai Sake bottle and cup Ōban studio Against the nuclear arms Hirokatsu Hijikata Ko-imari porcelain bowl JAPANESE Hollowed-out columns woven with clay bars GENG Xue Geng Mt Fuji Katsushika HOKUSAI Pendant CENTRAL ASIAN The corona woman Apindra SWAIN Jogni mata-ni-pachedi (temple hanging) Sanjay M. Chitara Narghile, huqqua base PERSIAN Embroidered strip INDIAN Spoon tray CHINESE Women partying Sangita JOGI Hand lamp KOREAN Smoking man Chang Xugong Water dropper CHINESE Tree plantation pata Jaba CHITRAKAR The real war Masuteru Aoba Peace white Peace black Kazuo Saito Garuda glass painting INDIAN Custard cup and lid CHINESE Singing woman Chang Xugong