July
21
/ 2019
In the year 1770, within a large village house by the bustling city of Edo, Japan (modern day Tokyo City), a large collective of apprentices studied under their teacher, Utagawa Toyoharu, in observation of his mastery of the Ukiyo-e style. Though these young artists were expected to master it, they used it to create something else far more provocative. At a point in their future professional careers, they were all commissioned to create shun-ga. Shun-ga is a term which literally translates to ‘spring pictures’. It has its roots from the Chinese term Chungong Hua (Spring Palace Pictures). A lot of the inspiration can be traced to the Japanese Heian period (794 AD -1185 AD), as well as from the Chinese
