shunga

See also: Shunga

English

A shunga print

Etymology

From Japanese 春画, from Middle Chinese 春 (t͡ʃʰwin "spring", by extension "sexual", "erotic") + 畫 (hwɛ̀ "painting").

Noun

shunga (uncountable)

  1. A style of Japanese erotic art
    • 2007 October 12, Roberta Smith, “Art in Review”, in New York Times‎:
      The works confound stereotypes of Japanese etiquette, even as they update the tradition of the anatomically explicit shunga print.

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Tagalog

Etymology

Alteration of tanga.

Adjective

shunga

  1. (gay slang) foolish, idiotic

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