Story of Shunga Octopus, a Hokusai's legend

This is a story based on a very famous classic Shunga – Woman diver and octopus also calleded Shunga Octopus in layman, wrote in my writing for new imaging.




shunga octopus
Shunga Octopus from shunga-prints.com

As it is now, although there is a colloquial translation, there are not many people who make "octopus and sea girl (woman diver)" a new sentence.


You may be offended, but we will post it.


A beautiful full moon night on the moon ...


Here is an absolute beach, the tide of the spring tide,

A young diver was wearing a simple white hemp kimono.

On the way home from her usual diver's hut, she died, rarely walking between the rocks of the sea, which appeared once every few years.


A pair of eyes looking at the diver.

A giant octopus, which is likely to be three feet long just at the head, asks the diver's destination from behind a rock.

This octopus, among the divers fishing at this nearby fishing ground, aiming for this beautiful diver who has long black waisted hair and white skin that does not accept the sunshine from this time Had become.


However, the inexperienced young diver could not fish on the side of the roost cave of the giant octopus, where the tide was complicated, and the flow was complicated.


The young diver is within reach of her hands or her feet.

This is a chance of a corner, but it is not possible to move like in the sea, and if you escape here, there is no source or child.

The big octopus decided to use his small alter ego octopus as a decoy.


"Oh? What?"

When a diver is walking between the rocks, it suddenly gets into his eyes.

Some clumps are moving in the slightly remaining seawater in the sand between the rocks.

The black lump, illuminated by the moon's light, is a small but excellent octopus.

"It looks like you've been left behind in the sea you pulled."


When the unexpected harvest and the diver descended to the sand, something soft, not rock, entangled in his right foot.

The lady screamed briefly and fell into the sand.

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