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TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI 月岡芳年 うたがわくによし 1839-1892 Kappa Control Method Series Title: Tōkyō kaika kyoga meisho 東京開化狂画名所 とうきょうかいかきょがめいしょ “Comic Pictures of Famous Places in the Early Days of Tokyo” Size: 6 3/4” 9 1/8” Date: 1881, 1st Month, 6th Day Meiji 14 明治14 Publisher: Tsunashima Kamekichi 綱島亀吉 つなかめきち (vía Kappa control)

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Japanese Color Woodblock Print
Kappa no he from the series Kyosai Hyakuzu
by Kawanabe Kyosai, c. 1863-1866

This print depicts a legendary kappa (water-imp) farting, sending two fishermen flying.  While the literal translation of Kappa no he 河童の屁 is “a water-imp’s fart” it carries the meaning “good for nothing.”

In commenting on this print, the catalog from a 1996 exhibition Comic Genius: Kawanabe Kyōsai states “…here Kyōsai has shown a kappa whose fart is so strong that fishermen fly away, making them truly good-for-nothing.”¹

For a fascinating discussion of kappas and flatulence see Jerry Vegder’s website http://www.printsofjapan.com/Yoshitoshi_kappa_control.htm

¹Comic Genius: Kawanabe Kyosai (Gyōsai no giga, kyōga ten), Shigeru Oikawa; Timothy Clark; et. al, Tōkyō Shinbun, 1996, p. 218, cat. #122-10.

暁斎百図 かつぱの屁　河鍋暁斎　1863年頃

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Fig. 4. Thoth seated in the crescentshaped boat of the Moon being presented with the Wedjat-Eye by a baboon, the animal form of himself. The boat floats above the glyph ‘Heavens,’ and the driftnet ahead suggests that the Moon-boat is flowing with the currents of Heaven. (Nile boats used a driftnet going downstream to the sea and a sail going upstream to the south). The curved stern with notches carved into it, representing broken-off palm leaves, is the sign for ‘years,’ with each broken-off leaf counting as a day. Sandstone stele of Neferrenpet. Found in Deir el Medina. c. 1320 BC. Egyptian Museum, Turin. (vía Jules Cashford, The Moon and Time)

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