Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife By Katsushika Hokusai

Notwithstanding his different works, Hokusai has become well known for his sexual symbolism, called shunga in Japanese. Maybe his most well known print of this kind, Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife is a model of shunga that was bought by people the same during the period. Understandings of the piece have drawn matches with the Japanese story of Princess Tamatori, a shell jumper who, sought after by the divine force of the ocean and his octopi, slices open her bosom to conceal her darling’s pearl.