A selection of ancient Japanese erotic paintings, titled “shunga” or “spring pictures” are currently on view at Sotheby’s Hong Kong location.  Considered somewhat taboo in Japan, the exhibition of works from the collection of Uragami Mitsuru struggled to find a home for its exhibition before Sotheby’s offered its location.  “The Tokyo National Museum hesitated to show it and so far I haven’t been able to get the Mori Museum to agree apart from a few works. In bookshops you can see these images but why can’t the real exhibit show? It’s nonsense,†Uragami said at the exhibition.
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