in Japan 300 years ago.
This was made with a woodcut based on the original drawn
by a famous painter and produced much.
It was polychrome and many printing blocks were used.
Their subjects ,which came into fashion then,
are the landscape,the lifestyle, the clothes and the hairstyle.
The one to which "sexual intercourse" was expressed in it often exists.
It's possible to divide these as "Shun-ga" or "pornography" in particular.
When it's changed for the present contents,
it will be a gravure of a photograph collection and a magazine.
A French Ukiyo-e vol.01:
A French Ukiyo-e vol.02:
A French Ukiyo-e vol.03: