Hart Williams Writes:
Dear Mike:
Happy Bukkake!
As we all know, “Bukkake” is a Japanese holiday, celebrating the “initiation” of the First Shogun’s wife, Suk Dik, in 1457. The intense eruption of Samurai semen would later inspire the Japanese artist Hokusai to paint his immortal “36 Views of Mount Fuji” in 1827.
The most famous Bukkake image included in it –often entitled “The Wave” and presumed to be the ocean in the Sea of Japan — features a boat filled
with Japanese Sea Men: a not very complicated visual pun that works in English, too. It refers both to “sea men” and to the “men in the boat.”
Those filthy-minded Japanese manga artists!
Bests,
Hart
PS: I’m lying. 1827 is, however, correct for Hokusai’s famed print book, and he sounds a lot like a porn worker to boot: “He didn’t care much for being sensible or respectable; he signed one of his last works as “The Art-Crazy Old Man”. In his 89 years, Hokusai changed his name some thirty times Hokusai wasn’t his real name) and lived in at least ninety homes.”
Boring but true.
