However, from the end of the Meiji period to the Taisho period, when bijinga (beautiful women's pictures) that foreigners liked gradually became out of stock, the shunga, which was partly repainted around genitals and collaged to make a woman's picture were exported.
しかし、次第に外国人好みの美人画が不足していったことから、明治末期から大正にかけて局部を書き換えた春画や、複数の春画を切り張りして一枚の美人画に仕立て上げたものを輸出するようになっていった。