Timon Screech

'Sex and the Floating World'

Bog | Engelsk

Newly revised and expanded, this second edition of Timon Screechs definitive Sex and the Floating World offers a real assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints today known as shunga. Changes in Japanese law in the 1990s enabled erotic image

'The Shogun's Silver Telescope'

Bog | Engelsk

The East India Company, founded in London in 1600, was the world's biggest trading organization until the twentieth century. It was originally a spice trading organization, and its existence was precarious in its early years. But its governors soon be