You always remember your first time.

Mine was on a subway train in central London, late one September afternoon. It was 1999, shortly before I moved to Japan. My impression of the country I would soon be living in had just been thoroughly shaken up.

Shunga, by Ishigami Aki, Uragami Mitsuru, Yamamoto Yukari and art directed by Takaoka KazuyaPie International + Pie Books, Nonfiction.