{"id":28041,"date":"2025-04-21T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=28041"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:05:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:05:43","slug":"twenty-four-octopuses-and-a-squid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/04\/21\/twenty-four-octopuses-and-a-squid\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-four octopuses and a squid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Abalone Fishergirl with an Octopus (c. 1773-1774) by Katsukawa Shunsho.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cephalopods in Japanese prints. There are many more octopuses than squids, especially the marauding variety, and that’s before you get to the erotic encounters like Hokusai’s notorious shunga<\/em> dream.<\/p>\n

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The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife (1814) by Katsushika Hokusai.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Seven Divers and a Big Octopus (c. 1830\u201340s) by Utagawa Kunisada.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ario-maru Struggling with a Giant Octopus (1833\u20131835) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Popular Octopus Games (1840\u20131842) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Parallels for the Cloudy Chapters of the Tale of Genji (1845\u20131846) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Parody of Umegae Striking the Bell of Limitless [Hell] (c. 1847) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A Female Abalone Diver Wrestling With An Octopus (1870s) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Delicacies of the Sea by Totoya Hokkei.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fish and Octopus by Setsuri.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sea Monster – Kaiju Manga – No. 8 (2007) by Tom Kristensen.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Squid (1940) by Ohno Bakufu.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Abalone Fishergirl with an Octopus (c. 1773-1774) by Katsukawa Shunsho. Cephalopods in Japanese prints. There are many more octopuses than squids, especially the marauding variety, and that’s before you get to the erotic encounters like Hokusai’s notorious shunga dream. The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife (1814) by Katsushika Hokusai. Seven Divers and a Big Octopus … Continue reading “Twenty-four octopuses and a squid”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Twenty-four octopuses and a squid","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[1952,13946,7702,13951,13949,13950,13948,6201,13947,13137],"class_list":["post-28041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-cephalopods","tag-katsukawa-shunsho","tag-katsushika-hokusai","tag-ohno-bakufu","tag-setsuri","tag-tom-kristensen","tag-totoya-hokkei","tag-tsukioka-yoshitoshi","tag-utagawa-kunisada","tag-utagawa-kuniyoshi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7ih","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}