Ghastly shunga

An author in this article will demonstrate and describe examples of selected Japaneseerotic woodblock prints and painting scrolls called shunga from Edo period (1603–1868). Selected images of Japanese "floating world" involve motifs from Japanese ghost stories and Japanese mythology. Every scary or fantastic motif and will be explained in the article. Moreover, the author will answer a question, why shunga artists created such kind of erotic pictures