(Paperback, 2nd edition)

Changes in Japanese law in the 1990s enabled erotic images to be published without fear of prosecution, and many shunga picture-books have since appeared. This book offers an assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints known as shunga. It seeks to re-establish shunga in a proper historical frame of culture and creativity.

(Paperback)

A rich and original history of Edo, the shoguns city that became modern Tokyo.

(Hardback)

Tokyo today is one of the world's mega-cities and the center of a scintillating, hyper-modern culture - but not everyone is aware of its past

(Paperback)

The Edo period (16031868) witnessed one of the great flowerings of Japanese art. In Obtaining Images