All-purpose tanuki testicles (prints by Kuniyoshi)
23 Jun 2009
In the mid-1840s, ukiyo-e master Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) created a number of woodblock prints showing legendary tanuki (raccoon dogs) using their humorously large scrota in creative ways.
River fishing
Shelter from evening showers
Rokurokubi (long-necked monster) disguise
Net fishing
Making dashi (soup stock)
Weightlifting
Catfish mallet
Coming and going
Making mochi
Visiting Konpira, the guardian deity of seafaring
Boy’s festival
Cause of chronic abdominal pain
Shichifukujin (the Seven Lucky Gods) disguise
Fortune-telling tent
Shop signs
River crossing
Towboat
Seine fishing
See more of Kuniyoshi’s tanuki images at Kuniyoshi Project (1, 2).
I used to live in Saitama-shi and one afternoon spent an afternoon at the Meguro Parasitological Museum. There they displayed a 19th century ukiyo-e very similar to the “coming and going” above. It featured a man with, I assume, filaria being helped by another man to carry the first’s much enlarged scrotum in a sling hung over a pole.
I assume you are currently living on Honshu. I’d highly recommend checking out the museum next time you have the chance. There are some enormous whale-borne parasites you’d likely enjoy.
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Fascinating. The carefully executed woodblock printing seems to anoint these images with an undeniable credibility and honesty. The medium is most certainly the message.
Now how bout some big DICKED WALRUSES???
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Ask and ye shall receive.
http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?p=45349914
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I can do 15 out of those 18.
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Haha, these are ridiculous. Illustrations from the 1840s in Japan sure differ from those of the States.
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la mia es mas grande
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Imposible, a no ser que seas de Pamplona. Los pamplonicas tenemos según el record Guiness la media de testiculos más grande del mundo. Llegan a pesar 80 kg en algunos casos, también pescamos con ellos atunes.
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I believe Hayao Miyasaki’s animated movie Pom Poko was inspired by these illustrations.
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Pom Poko is a 3 hour foray into tanuki ball-sack weirdness. Holy crap it’s fucking CRAZY. The fact that we were watching the chinese bootleg with appropriately engrished up subtitles did not help, but you’ll notice that Disney hasn’t licensed this Ghibli creation and probably never will. It was a wonderful movie but it would probably tank at the box office in America.
It wasn’t Miyazaki, bit it was Studio Ghibli. The director is Isao Takahata.
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Actually Pom Poko was part of a deal between Disney and Ghibli where Ghibli provides Disneey with ten animated movies and Disney airs/shows them unedited. It’s just not well known because of it’s hilarious subject matter that prudes can’t handle well.
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On the contrary, robot makes music, Disney did! In the English dub, they’re called “magical racoon pouches”.
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Ouch! it hurts just to look at them. Kuniyoshi sure was inspired to pain that many!
(psst, I doubt the tanuki anime lasts 3 hours)
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Revelating typo… “paint”
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I wonder if their reproductive organs hurt. Wait, is it even a reproductive organ for them?
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these are awesome.
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I can’t read all of the signatures, but most of them are by the same person. Just one guy crazy obsessed with raccoon privates?
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Now I know the origin of “Viz” magazine’s “Buster Gonad and His Unfeasible Large Testicles” comic strip.
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Eso se llama ”tener pelotas”.
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This is sickly disturbing! Why would you want to look at a cartoon with nasty over grown genitalia.
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obvious how much lighthearted and fun-having these people are into. like the simillarly funny raging boners i’ve seen in cartoons coming from this land, the tradition of art laughing loudest is a testament.
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