ukiyo-e

The first instance of tentacle eroticism (aka squid porn) is largely attributed to legendary Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai who created an erotic woodcut of the ukiyo-e (’pictures of the floating world’) genre around 1820 called The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife (aka ‘Pearl Diver and Two Octopuses’) depicting a woman entwined sexually with a pair of octopuses.

Tokyo-based Appliya is offering two iPhone and iPod apps that bring traditional Ukiyo-e art to the small screen near you.

They feature art taken directly from The Chiba City Museum of Art, host to one of the world’s most famous Ukiyo-e collections as either individual images or as calendar backgrounds.