Strangers in Paradise
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Strangers in Paradise: The Foreign Image in Japanese Art and Shunga is a book by Yoshikazu Hayashi and Richard Lane
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9.5 x 11.5", 151 pp., 33 color and 207 b/w plates, text in Japanese with an English summary and list of plates, paper, Tokyo, 1998.
This special volume is devoted to images of foreigners in Japanese prints, especially in shunga, which include those that depict Europeans, Americans and Chinese. The extensive text (in Japanese) discusses the complex relationship between foreigners and Japan and the enigma behind their depictions in erotic prints. (This is a special volume in addition to Volume 1 through 24 in the Ukiyo-e Shunga Series)
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