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Love with Humour – Japanese Erotic Art from the Ofer Shagan Collection - Published in 2017 to accompany an exhibition at the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art in Haifa, this bilingual exhibition catalogue presents a remarkable selection of shunga—traditional Japanese erotic prints and paintings from the Edo period—from the renowned Ofer Shagan Collection. Richly illustrated and accompanied by scholarly essays, the book explores how Japanese erotic art combined sensuality with humour, satire, and social commentary. Rather than focusing solely on eroticism, it reveals shunga as an important artistic tradition that reflected everyday life, cultural values, and human relationships through wit and visual storytelling.