A brief comparison of old eroctic paintings in the Far East

Sexuality brings similar physical and emotional manifestations but shows many cross‐cultural variations. Three East Asian countries, China, Japan, and Korea, have been under somewhat similar cultural backgrounds almost for the last two thousand years mainly by being influenced by the so-called Confucian ideology. That applies to the art including paintings, sculptures, etc. However, the characteristics of the erotic paintings differed so much in many aspects.