The famous Shunga prints of Harunobu Suzuki are mainly composed of three groups, "The Merry Beans", "The Eight Scenes of the Merry Chambers" and "The Mirror of the Swinging Girl". The first group consists of a total of twenty-four, telling a story of a person who has eaten a long-lasting antibiotic, turned into a bean-sized size, and went out to see the world.
He is like the hero of the Roman Romance. He often hides in front of others' windows, hides under the bedside table, and peeks at the love of men and women to learn how to make love. There are a total of eight in the second group. Because it involves a similar set of "Eight Views of the Chamber", it should be counted as sixteen, which will be detailed below. The third group of thirty-three, with erotic Chinese ancient poetry and Japanese Han poetry as an allusion, portrays the flirting and blending of men and women.
Harunobu Suzuki 's Shunga prints are not satisfied with superficial erotic purposes. He admires the classical, through the use of shunga prints, to explore the elegant aspects of ordinary life, to seek artistic beauty in secular art. For the Japanese painters of the Edo period, the allusions that helped this can be found in Chinese poetry and painting. In the "Eight Views of the Chamber" and "The Eight Scenes of the Merry Chambers", the allusion adopted by Harunobu Suzuki is the long scroll of the Song Dynasty in China.
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