English

Adjective

Shunga ‎(not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the ancient Indian Shunga Empire that flourished between 187 to 78 BCE.
   • 2000, “Shunga Dynasty (ca. 2nd–1st century B.C.)”, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art:

     Under Shunga patronage, the core of the Great Stupa, thought to date from the era of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka (r. ca. 273–232 B.C.), was enlarged to its present diameter of 120 feet, covered with a stone casing, topped with a balcony and umbrella, and encircled with a stone railing.

English

A shunga print

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.

See also

• shunga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia