Judging from his extant works, it appears that Sugimura, who preferred (unlike most ukiyo-e artists) to use his surname rather than his given name, specialized in shunga, or erotic prints.

Ukiyo-e artists made careers doing erotic prints and courtesan portraits; showmanship was a virtual prerequisite of survival for British painters competing for attention at Somerset House during the 18th century.

The effect was sexually charged, like erotic Asian prints updated to the 1990's.

The erotic prints were called shunga, these prints were banned after the Meiji Restoration (1868).

It was an album of 12 erotic silk-screen prints.

Scott exploits the contrasting viewpoints especially well in her portrait of the relationship between Elizabeth and Ellios, a dentist turned antiques dealer whom Elizabeth approaches for help in selling the erotic prints.

The film is based on the life of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints.

He also produced a body of erotic prints and woodcuts.

While in Tokyo, he published his first two books, the translation Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee and a privately published book of erotic colored prints from the Ming dynasty.

A fitted carpet covered its floor; on its panelled walls hung several small, but beautifully executed, coloured erotic French prints of the eighteenth century.