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Title
shunga, print
Description
English: Shunga. Colour woodblock print, koban format. Japanese soldier buggering a Russian soldier, more Japanese troops in the distance charging with a Japanese flag.
Date 1904-1905 (circa)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 9.30 centimetres
Width: 12.70 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
2012,3053.1
Notes This scene can be most aptly described as ‘Buggering the Russian’. Both the Japanese and Russian figures are infantry soldiers, since the Russian has what looks like a rifle with a bayonet. The Russian soldier is portrayed as distinctively Caucasian, with a pointed nose, white skin, and ginger hair and moustache (most likely styled after the traditional stereotyping of the Westerners as ‘red-haired’, or ko-mo- jin, in Japanese prints). The print ostensibly depicts sexual violence in a battlefield situation. However, the image is altogether more nuanced and complex because of the Russian soldier’s expression, which is somewhat muted. Also intriguing is the fact that this male-to-male sexual act takes place in an abstract space, with no obvious background illustration apart from the distant group of charging Japanese soldiers with a flag. Metaphorically, this image of a sexually potent Japanese soldier can be interpreted as the masculine and powerful conqueror, Japan. The Russian soldier is depicted as having no choice other than to accept the violent act of the Japanese conqueror – that is, Russia is no longer the dominant force in the region but subservient to the new power, Japan. Imagery relating to fighting appears in earlier shunga (see Clark et al 2013, p. 323 and cat. 108). [NS]
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2012-3053-1
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