The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife

November 22, 2009 by reesan · 12 Comments
Filed under: history, weird 

The first instance of tentacle eroticism (aka squid porn) is largely attributed to legendary Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai who created an erotic woodcut of the ukiyoue (‘pictures of the floating world’) genre around 1820 called The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife (aka ‘Pearl Diver and Two Octopuses’) depicting a woman entwined sexually with a pair of octopuses.

The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife

The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife

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