Imaging/Reading Eros: 

Proceedings for the conference, Sexuality and Edo Culture, 1750–1850 

Indiana University, Bloomington August 17–20, 1995

Sumie Jones, Editor

Front Matter

 

Sex, Art, and Edo Culture: An Introduction

Sumie Jones

 

The Yoshiwara Wits: Edo Sexual Humor

Howard Hibbett

 

Shunga Production in the 18th and 19th centuries: Designing ‘un enfer en style bibliographique’

Matthias Forrer

 

Overcoming the Modern History of Edo “Shunga”

Henry Smith

 

Response to the Panel “Edo as Eros: Shunga in History”

George Wilson

 

Prostitutes and Prosperity in the Works of Terakado Seiken

Andrew Markus

 

Marketing Desire: Advertising and Sexuality in Edo Literature, Drama and Art

David Pollack

 

Erotic Textiles

Tanaka Yuko

 

Response to the Panel ‘Eros and Consumerism’

Harold Bolitho

 

Bodies Possessed and Hearts Disordered: Sexuality and Madness in Edo Japan

Susan Burns

 

Japanese Sexual Customs and Cultures Seen From the Perspective of the Korean Delegation to Japan

Choi Park-Kwang

 

The Cult of Genitalia and the Return of the Land in Late Edo Culture

Miyata Noboru

 

Response to the Panel ‘Otherness Within and Without’

Michael Robinson

 

Interminable Reflections: The Semiotics of Edo Arts

Sumie Jones

 

Poems on the Way to Yoshiwara

Robert Campbell

 

Precariousness of Love, Places of Love

Haga Tōru

 

Response to the Panel ‘The Place of Love’

Andrew Gerstle

 

Male Homosexuality in Edo During the Late Tokugawa Period, 1750–1850: Decline of a Tradition?

Gary Leupp

 

Lusty Pregnant Women and Erotic Mothers: Representations of Female Sexuality in Erotic Art in Edo

Ueno Chizuko

 

From Young Lions to Rats in a Ditch: The Decline of Shudō in the Edo Period

Ujiie Mikito

 

Response to the Panel ‘Configurations of Gender’

Norman Bryson

 

Shunga and Mitate: Suzuki Harunobu’s Eight Modern Views of the Interior (Fūryū Zashiki Hakkei)

Hayakawa Monta

 

Willow Leaftips

John Solt

 

The Back Side of Noh Chant: A Yatsushi ‘Takasago’

Shelley Fenno Quinn

 

Response to the Panel ‘The Rhythm and Play of Flesh and Words’

Paul Gordon Schalow

 

Santō Kyōden’s Sharebon: Private Life and Public Art

Nobuhiro Shinji

 

Pictocentrism: China as a Source of Japanese Modernity

Charles Inouye

 

Love and Sexuality in Tamenaga Shunsui

Eiji Sekine

 

Response to the Panel ‘Desire for Narrative in Stories and Pictures’

Takahashi Tōru

 

Back Matter