The 36 Views Of Mount Fuji - a shunga series by Senju

For roughly 265 years, Japan practised Sakoku and stayed secluded from much of the world. In the early 1600s, mainly because of the destabilizing influence of foreign religious forces, the island nation’s Shogun (military ruler), expelled most foreigners and prohibited any new visitors. It also imposed a ban on Japanese nationals leaving the country. Even though these measures seem harsh, they undoubtedly served their purpose in preventing Japan from being colonized by greedy western powers.

The isolation also gave rise to a distinct and unique culture in which art took centre stage. The commoners of the growing megalopolis Edo (now Tokyo), with its 1 000 000 people in the early 1700s, created a strong culture that still resonates today. Ukiyo (the floating world) was a concept expressed through woodblock prints, painting, theatre, literature, and fashion.

The most famous of the Ukiyo-e artists active during the Edo period (1603-1868) was, and still is, Katsushika Hokusai. His print titled “The Great wave off Kanagawa” is considered one of the world’s most recognizable artworks. This image of a great and towering tsunami-like wave is also part of perhaps Ukiyo-e’s most well-known print series – Fugaku Sanjūrokkei (36 views of Mt. Fuji).

Hokusai, and his contemporaries like Ando Hiroshige and Utagawa Kuniyoshi, also changed western art. Ukiyo-e greatly inspired European art movements like Impressionism and Art Nouveau. Many times it was the Mt. Fuji series that opened up the eyes of western painters.

Almost 200 years after Hokusai published his first prints in his famous series depicting the holy mountain, I have begun work on my personal views of Mt. Fuji.

This series of Shunga prints was completed in July 2023. The full series was exhibited in Tokyo in August of the same year at the legendary Bumpodo Gallery, curated by Tokyo Dub Agent.

Besides the prints themselves, there are also plans for further exhibitions as well as for a book.

 

 

Portrait of Hokusai by Keisai Eisen, (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

 

“The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” by Hokusai. From his original Mount Fuji Ukiyo-e series. (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

 

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An erotic and sensual shunga print from the series "36 views of mt. Fuji" by Swedish artist Senju. It shows a man and a woman having passionate sex int he glow of twillight
An erotic and sensual shunga print from the series "36 views of mt. Fuji" by Swedish artist Senju. It shows a man and a woman having passionate sex beneath blossoming cherry trees.
An erotic and sensual shunag painitng by Senju. Showing a young woman giving a handjob to her lover beneath the twillight autumn sky near Mt Fuji.
A senual and erotic shunga print showing a pornographic scene. In the traditional Japanese shunga style. By swedish artist senju
a classic japanese erotic shunga print. A tribute to the 36 views of mount fuji by Hokusai. Painted by senju.
A painting in the shunga style. Depicting a woman lifting her kimono and showing her pussy. Sensual and erotic Japanese porn art by Senju.
An erotic shunga painting showing a young woman in kinbaku rope ties. A sensual homage to 36 views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai. By Swedish artist Senju
Showing an erotic traditional Japanese Shunga painting by Swedish artist Senju. The image shows a sensual yet pornographic scene involving a woman in a purple kimono with wisteria pattern and a man in brown kimono. The image is a tribute to the 36 views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai.
A sensual and erotically charged Shunga painting by Senju, depicting a young, beautiful Heian era woman masturbating with a tenge mask. Ninth installment in the 36 views of fuji Shunga series
An image of a sensual and erotic Shunga painting by Swedish artist Senju. It depicts two young women kissing beneath the sakura cherry trees in view of Mount Fuji. Part of a series of 36 prints celebrating Hokusai's masterpiece Ukiyoäe series 36 Views of Mount Fuji.
a sensual and erotic print by Swedish artist Senju, depicting a tattooed woman wearing a full body suit tattoo in the traditional Japanese irezumi style. A shunga celebration of the 36 views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai.
A sensual and erotic traditional Japanese shunga painting by the artist Senju. Depicting a young couple in a sexual embrace beneath the full moon over Fuji. This work is a celebration of the original 36 views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai
A painting with an erotic and sensual feel in the Japanese Shunga style. Showing a beautiful nude woman masturbating on a flowery mountain slope. Mount Fuji is in the background. A celebration of the original 36 views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai
showing an erotic painting in Senju Shunga's series "36 Views of Mount Fuji". Depicting the reflection in a traditional Japanese bronze mirror, Kagami, of two lovers in intimate sexual embrace. Next to the mirror is placed a sake flask and a sake cup showing a scene of Mount Fuji. It is painted in the Japanese style of Shunga.
Shows a sensual and erotic Japanese shunga painting by Swedish artist Senju. It depicts a BBW curvy plus size woman in a sexual encounter with a man during the Edo period. The man is eating her ass in front of a folding screen showing a painting of Mount Fuji and a pine tree.
A painting in the Japanese traditional Shunga tradition, showing a sensual and erotic motif of a female gently guiding a hard cock towards her pussy. The painting is a homage to the 36 views of mount fuji by Hokusai.
A sensual gay erotic painting in the Japanese shunga style. This erotic artwork is by the Swedish artist Senju, and is an homage to the original Ukiyo-e print series by Hokusai.
An erotic painting in the traditional Japanese shunga style. depicting a couple fucking in front of a folding screen depicting a scene of Mount Fuji at night. The woman is wearing Geta, Japanese wooden clogs. This work is a part of a series of sensual paintings by Senju. An homage to the original series 36 views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai.
A sensual painting in the Japanese traditional shunga style. Depicting an erotic scene first made famous by Hokusai, in which an Octopus and a young woman are locked in a sexual embrace.
An homage to Hokusai and his classic image of the Great Wave Off Kanagawa from the 36 views of Mount Fuji ukiyo-e series. The painting features Edo period Japanese dildos floating in the water beneath a tsunami like wave. In the background is a circular cartouche depicting the vagina, or pussy, of a young beautiful female. By Swedish artist Senju in the Shunga school.
An image of a sensual and erotic shunga painting by Swedish artist Senju. Traditional Japanese erotic art.
A Sensual and erotic shunga painting by Swedish artist Senju. Showing two beautiful women in a very special encounter where one is licking the other's feet and the other uses a long nosed goblin tenge mask as a dildo.
An image showing a sensual and erotic shunga painting by Senju. A lesbian love couple are having sex undertake fulll moon. Part of a homage to the original 36 views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai.
An image showing an erotic and sensual shunga painting by artist Senju from Sweden. A young man man eats the pussy of his young girlfriend in a boat in Ushibori, Hitachi province.
An image showing Swedish artist Senju's effort to reproduce a famous shunga print by Terasaki Kogyo in his own style. A art of the artists ongoing homage to the original woodblock ukiyo-e series "36 views of Mount Fuji" by Hokusai.
An erotic painting by Swedish shunga painter Senju. The painting shows a beautiful woman tied in Kinbaku Japanese rope bondage style, nude in a traditional Japanese room. a man is pinching her nipple-
This Japanese porn shunga image shows an erotic and sensual painting by Swedish erotic artist Senju. It shows a beautiful nude female being fucked doggystyle in a traditional Japanese art Ukiyo-e landscape.
This image shows a beautiful nude female couple in an erotic and sensual embrace in a eco period room in Asakusa. In the window sits a cat watching the landscape outside.

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