Wednesday, October 17, 2018

I'm putting this up in case anybody's still looking at this blog. My main posting site is on the Samurai Detective page at Facebook.
The image I'm posting here is from a "fart scroll." No kidding, that's what the two men on the left are supposed to be doing. Here's an explanation from somebody who runs a blog under the name of Tofugu:
The whole scroll, which is called He-Gassen ("The Fart Battle") is just about people farting. Farting at other people, farting at cats, farting off of horses, farting into bags; just farting everywhere. Why? I couldn't really tell you. I've tried to do some research but, believe it or not, academic literature on Japanese farting is surprisingly few and far between. [...] I did find out enough to know that this isn't the only farting scroll out there in existence – in fact, in the 90s, a collection of fart scrolls sold for $1,500 at the famous Christie's auction house. I am not making this up.