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The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife by Hokusai.

The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (蛸と海女, Tako to ama^?) is an erotic woodcut of the ukiyo-e genre made around 1820 by the Japanese artist Hokusai. Perhaps the first instance of tentacle eroticism, it depicts a woman entwined sexually with a pair of octopuses, the smaller of which wraps one of it's tentacles around the woman's nipple and kisses her, while the larger one performs cunnilingus. Hokusai created The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife during the Edo period in when Shinto was making a resurgence; this influenced the piece's animism and playful attitude towards sexuality. It is a celebrated example of shunga and has been reworked by a number of artists. Similar themes of human females having sexual intercourse with sea life have been displayed since the 17th century in Japanese netsuke, small carved sculptures only a few inches in height and often extremely elaborate. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Katsushika Hokusai, (葛飾北斎), (1760—1849[1]), was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period . ... Four horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürer Ukiyo-e woodcut, Ishiyama Moon by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1889) Woodcut is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface... View of Mount Fuji from Numazu, part of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō series by Hiroshige, published 1850 Ukiyo-e ), pictures of the floating world, is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of... 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Katsushika Hokusai, (葛飾北斎), (1760—1849[1]), was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period . ... The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, an 1820 Hokusai woodcut depicting a woman engaging in sex with a pair of octopodes. ... For other uses, see Octopus (disambiguation). ... Watercolour painting depicting cunnilingus by Achille Devéria Cunnilingus is the act of performing oral sex, using the mouth, lips, and tongue to stimulate the female genitals. ... The Edo period ), also called Tokugawa period, is a division of Japanese history running from 1603 to 1868. ... Shinto ) is the native religion of Japan and was once its state religion. ... The term Animism is derived from the Latin anima, meaning soul.[1][2] In its most general sense, animism is simply the belief in souls. ... Shunga ) is a Japanese term for erotic pictures. ... a monkey-shaped netsuke a netsuke maintains an inro (box) in the obi (belt) Japanese artists starting in the 17th century cleverly invented the miniature sculptures known as netsuke (Japanese:根付) to serve a very practical function. ...

Influence

• Kaneto Shindo includes the image in his 1981 film Hokusai manga, an account of Hokusai's life. It stars Ken Ogata as Hokusai and Yuko Tanaka as his daughter Oei.

Kaneto Shindo , born 28 April 1912) in Hiroshima, Japan is a Japanese film director. ... Ken Ogata (緒形拳 Ogata Ken, born 20 July 1937) is a Japanese actor. ...

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