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In the text above Hokusai's image, the big octopus says he will bring the girl to Ryūjin's undersea palace, strengthening the connection to the Tamatori legend. [5] The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife is not the only work of Edo-period art to depict erotic relations between a woman and an octopus.
The Japanese painter Hokusai is the author of an erotic and fantastique Ukiyo-e engraving: The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife. There is shown the ecstasy of a naked woman clutched by two octopuses there. Patrick Grainville undertakes to tell the story of these supernatural lovers.
Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, c. 31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849), known mononymously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. [1] His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa .
The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, Hokusai, 1814 A man with a Western-style haircut makes love to a woman in traditional Japanese dress in this Meiji-period shunga print. Shunga were produced between the sixteenth century and the nineteenth century by ukiyo-e artists, since they sold more easily and at a higher price than their ordinary work.
"The Giant Pacific Octopus is not generally regarded as a dangerous octopus, unlike its counterpart the Blue-Ringed Octopus." These are the biggest octopuses in the world, with an average length ...
We all met together with the painter Gekkōtei Bokusen (月光亭墨僊) [Utamasa II, well-known Nagoya artist, pupil of Hokusai’s, and collator of Hokusai’s later work] at the latter’s residence, it being a very joyous occasion. And there over three hundred sketches of all kinds were made – from immortals, Buddhas, scholars, and women ...
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Edo Porn (Japanese: 北斎漫画, romanized: Hokusai manga) is a 1981 Japanese biographical drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō. It is based on Seiichi Yashiro's stage play on the life of Japanese artist Hokusai. [1] [2] [3]