Publisher's Synopsis
A sampling of a centuries-old erotic legacy, this text is excerpted from novels, sex manuals, Zen poems and Geisha songs, and is accompanied by a collection of "shunga" - coloured wood block prints that represent some of the most extraordinary sexual art any culture has ever produced.;Pillow books, which take their name from the lacquered wooden "pillows" of Japan in which these conveniently small works of instruction and amusement were mainly kept, have long been a traditional gift for lovers in India, China and Japan.
