Shunga Tote Bag

Exclusive to the British Museum, a tote bag featuring a scene from Kitagawa Utamaro’s Poem of the Pillow (1788).

This image shown on this eye-catching cotton tote bag is a section from an image entitled Lovers in an upstairs room, and shows a tender moment between a couple. The bag is machine washable.

The original print by Kitagawa Utamaro (c.1756-1806) is part of a series entitled Utamakura, or “Poem of the Pillow”, and can be seen housed in the British Museum’s collection. In early modern Japan, thousands of sexually explicit paintings, prints and illustrated books were produced. These were collectively called “spring pictures”, or shunga.

A beautiful gift for a lover of Japanese art.