| The works confound stereotypes of Japanese etiquette, even as they update the tradition of the anatomically explicit shunga print. |
| The dynasty was established by Pushyamitra Shunga, after the fall of the Maurya Empire. |
| In the world of shunga, the women are always wet, the men perpetually potent. |
| The Shunga rulers helped to establish the tradition of royal sponsorship of learning and art. |
| They had to compete with the Shunga Empire and then the Kanva dynasty of Magadha to establish their rule. |
| As we have seen already with the parody of the women's textbook, the physicality and bookishness of shunga made it an appropriate genre for satire. |
