In the foundation of the culture of Japanese MANGA and animation, there lies the humor filled art form, shunga. Shunga is a type of Japanese art by famous ukiyo-e artists of the Edo Period, such as Utamaro, Hokusai, and Kiyonaga, but the artform’s development was thwarted by social norms that tabooed sex. The film Introduces the world of shunga through enthusiasts - collectors, curators, and scholars, including Andrew Gerstle who inspired The British Museum’s historical shunga exhibition in 2013 and Michael Fornitz who owns an auction house in Denmark. Exploring the significance of shunga by analyzing it from historical, cultural, artistic and contemporary female points of view.
Japanese study overview
Haru no Ga: SHUNGA is a Japanese movie of 19,321 characters, with 1,913 unique words and 848 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,913 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 思うto think×82
- 春画shunga×73
- 描くto draw×53
- 中inside×40
- 女性woman×27
- 私I×26
- 絵picture×25
- 時time×22
- 非常emergency×17
- 本当にreally×17
- 感じfeeling×17
- 今now×16
- 浮世絵ukiyo-e×13
- 摺るto print×11
- 歌麿Utamaro×10
- 北斎Hokusai×10
- 刷りprinting×10
- 蛸octopus×8
- 春信Harunobu×7
- 陰毛pubic hair×6