namazu-e catfish-10 - from our story 'Farting Drums, Sex Gods And The Namazu Catfish Quakes Censored In Edo Japan'

namazu-e Japanese catfish disaster prints

The perpetrators of three big quakes captured alive [+] In this print, the god Kashima has captured the catfish responsible for the major earthquakes in Shinshu, Edo, and Odawara. A carpenter, fireman, plasterer and roofer try to persuade the god to release the catfish, saying the creatures have apologized enough. The unforgiving Kashima sentences the fish to be cooked in a nabe stew.

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