Away from the noises and smells of Tokyo’s most infamous red-light district, past a garbage station and up a flight of stairs, the Shinjuku Kabukicho Noh Theater offers a different kind of atmosphere entirely.?
The space is dark and calm, with visitors peering at exhibits and speaking in hushed tones. They are perusing “,” the third edition of Smappa!Group’s shunga exhibition series, on display until May 31. The show is spread between two locations, a noh theater and a former host club.
Shunga — literally “spring pictures” — refers to erotic art mainly created during the Edo Period (1603-1867) and early Meiji Era (1868-1912), often by some of 91AV原创 master ukiyo-e artists, such as Hokusai and Utagawa Kuniyoshi. The prints were banned in the late Meiji as part of a wave of rapid societal changes and Westernization, but in the past couple of decades, shunga art has come to be viewed in a more favorable light.
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