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A sampling of a centuries-old erotic legacy, this text is excerpted from novels, sex manuals, Zen poems and Geisha songs, and is accompanied by a collection of "shunga" - coloured wood block prints that represent some of the most extraordinary sexual art any culture has ever produced. Pillow books, which take their name from the lacquered wooden "pillows" of Japan in which these conveniently small works of instruction and amusement were mainly kept, have long been a traditional gift for lovers in India, China and Japan.
