The Erotic Affinities between Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke
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professor kukhee chu teaches cultural studies at sofia university in tokyo. before i dip into modern-day tokyo s sexual tendencies, i want to go back. okay. we have to stand back for this. way back to the 17th century and erotic art known as shunga. almost need a drum roll. these works are still taboo and they re rarely exhibited. this is a very extravagant scroll from 1675. that is truly beautiful. but kukhee has managed to get us a private look at the pieces in tokyo s shumisho gallery. look at that. this was a common gift for daughters for the samurai class on their wedding night. to show them to show them it s a sex education manual. really? let s go through the story. they re lying together on their wedding night. oh, she s kind of looking bored. she s reading. and he s like, okay. and would it be on public display? shunga was a very popular culture in japan and people of various classes would go and