A prática feminina na pintura erótica japonesa pré-moderna

Abstract

The present article aims to show a few results on an ongoing investigation about female sex performance representations, particularly on the male phallus substitutive implements usage. A great production of aphrodisiacs and pleasure objects was developed throughout Edo period (1603-1868)，and its representations in paintings, prints and illustrated books are shown in a variety of historical times and social surroundings. Female masturbation representation, although more noticeable in places to which male access was limited，also shows itself in the pleasure quarters, where one would think would lack no clients and, surprisingly, also in common townsmen homes. Some selected images will be presented, taken from some painters of the so called genre of ukiyoe shunga, “spring painting”，with its respective inserted texts translations, from the black and white to the multicolored print.