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Yesterday I mentioned, in passing, "the great Toshio Saeki" as a possible influence on Tabaimo. He's certainly influenced Makoto Aida... unless there's just something in the Japanese water supply that makes everyone an incredibly imaginative pervert.

Since Saeki's work is all about fantasy, I thought I'd enter into his grotesque game by giving firsthand accounts of some of his images, as if I -- and you -- were there. Click the thumbnails to see bigger versions of the scenes described... if you dare.



You're a nun on a pilgrimage. In a strange landscape of impossibly pointy mountains, lit by a red moon, you're ambushed by three ne'er-do-wells; a monkey, a bald monk, and a pig. While the monk holds down your head with his knee, the pig (fanged and slavering) licks your exposed genitals. The monkey, for reasons best known to himself, licks his own cane.



As our son crouches in the corridor, peeping, I try to satisfy you on our marital futon with the tongue and fingers I have. It's hard work, though, because you have three demented, insatiable heads -- two on your shoulders and one sprouting out of your sex.



Pretty in your blue nightie, with matching blue panties around your ankles, you rub and ride on a hairy -- well, what, exactly? A hairy-spined nightmare maggot with an old man's face and blood coming out of its nose and mouth. Which apparently eats fish and lives in a cage nearby, where it sheds rather a lot of hair.



While a malevolent clown watches from behind a curtain, you sit with spread legs while an implacable elephant inserts its trunk tentatively into your shaved sex. Not many people know what goes on behind the scenes at the circus.



You've been washed up on the shore, a sort of mermaid. But instead of a fish tail, your lower half waves and squirms with eight pink sucker-cupped legs. It's hard to know just where to put one's penis. Trial and error, my love.



We knew the exorcism had been a success when the angry raccoon which had been living inside you for three weeks suddenly emerged from your sex, breathing purple smoke. Our only concern, as we whipped him out, was that his tail was still wagging between your breasts.

More Toshio Saeki images on the man's own website, or here. Multimedia here.

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Date: 2006-11-13 04:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brooklynnotes.livejournal.com
damn, momus, are you trying to get me in trouble in the library! yeesh

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Date: 2006-11-13 04:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
Any library worth its salt should stock this stuff.

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Date: 2006-11-13 04:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] masnomas.livejournal.com
"Any library worth its salt should stock this stuff."

Oh my god I love you.

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Date: 2006-11-13 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lord-whimsy.livejournal.com
Gave the Old Boy a tingle--many thanks.

I wonder: which western written work would have best lent itself to his pen?

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Date: 2006-11-13 05:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
Hansard? No, I'm being silly. Surely "The Story of the Eye".

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Date: 2006-11-14 02:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beketaten.livejournal.com
Holy god! Best book...EVER.

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Date: 2006-11-14 04:48 am (UTC)

The Story of the Eye

Date: 2006-11-14 08:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] akabe.livejournal.com
http://www.maruojigoku.com

this guy's quite good too as far as taisho ero-guro + bataille goes.

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Date: 2006-11-13 05:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] haunted-attics.livejournal.com
Oh my god, Sanzo! Journey to the West is never ever going to be the same for me again. Thank you. :)

Also, the octopus one could be interpretted as sweet.

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Date: 2006-11-13 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] butterflyrobert.livejournal.com
That one in particular reminds me of some of my dreams.

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Date: 2006-11-13 05:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bopscotch.livejournal.com
Thankfully, my parental units aren't home. Otherwise, I'd be in big trouble. (They're Catholic)

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Date: 2006-11-13 05:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubow-org.livejournal.com
Apparently not many people know what goes on behind the scenes of Monkey (Monkey Magic) either!! ... until now.

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Date: 2006-11-13 06:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zenicurean.livejournal.com
It just now struck me that, according to folk canon, the staff Monkey seems busy licking would be the magic staff of Li, and therefore can, uh, "enlargen or shrink" at will.

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Date: 2006-11-13 06:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zenicurean.livejournal.com
I never thought I'd stumble across Tripitaka-themed Japanese pornographic art on Livejournal... but I suppose that for the wider Internet, it was inevitable. The Monkey King looks just a bit lonely, though, while The Pig Demon seems to be hoarding the fine scroll courier.

(I suppose the good saint should consider it a blessing - or a curse, maybe - that he's not using his legendary rake.)

Sandy kneels on Tripitaka

Date: 2006-11-13 06:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stickismyfriend.livejournal.com
the squid drawing is very similar to a recurring theme in George Pichard's strips. I'm thinking Caroline Cholera and Les Aventures de Pauline. I think there's a squid lady in the circus troupe in one or both of these series.

isn't the multi head drawing about the child's naive interpretation of what he can hear?

Re: Sandy kneels on Tripitaka

Date: 2006-11-13 07:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
isn't the multi head drawing about the child's naive interpretation of what he can hear?

No. We had no idea Toseki was there. His mother had told him to go to bed... three times.

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Date: 2006-11-13 08:23 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
now thats culture!

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Date: 2006-11-13 08:34 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
WOW these are really amazing, and utterly disturbing! leaves you with a feeling of that you´ve done something bad by watching them, just like it should be!

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Date: 2006-11-13 08:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] desant012.livejournal.com
Good stuff. It's hard to imagine how you'd discover things like this without the InTerNeT

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Date: 2006-11-13 11:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] niddrie-edge.livejournal.com
The blue nightie one. The way she chews the fabric. The belt.

I had a dream about you last night. You did not appear. A community centre was putting on a show by you called,
"Nothing like you expected"
I went in because i needed a piss. Two redheads accosted me and told me that even though I was slightly pissed at your last exhibition I was still worthy of further investigation.
This struck me as od as I was wearing extremely long striped winkle pickers . Like something from Dr Seuss.

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Date: 2006-11-13 11:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
I need to see that in pornographic drawings, I think!

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Date: 2006-11-14 03:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lord-whimsy.livejournal.com
...and I need to see those shoes.

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Date: 2006-11-13 11:28 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
You've excelled yourself this time.

YFWFTOSP

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Date: 2006-11-14 12:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sofahead.livejournal.com
Jeez, Nick, thank you for introducing me to this 1001st brilliant thing which, without Click Opera, I would have never fathomed.

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Date: 2006-11-14 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cerulicante.livejournal.com
You know, raccoons breathing purple smoke that come out of vaginas are a pretty common thing in Japan. That's why Wacoal has special "Tanuki pantsu" that are reportedly raccoon-resistant.


They come in pink, white and teal.

What is the peace sign fingers in photos?

Date: 2006-11-14 04:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meganfinley.livejournal.com
In art history methods we were talking about Japanese photos and why they put the two fingers up in a peace-sign like motion. I thought it wasn't a peace sign because one finger is usually over the other - so what does it mean please? Why is it popular? Thanks, Megan

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Date: 2006-11-14 04:50 am (UTC)

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Date: 2006-11-14 05:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pewpewpew.livejournal.com
have you seen sexinart.net? you really ought to give it a gander, plenty of titillating illustrations.

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Date: 2006-11-14 11:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mcgazz.livejournal.com
All very nice, but the euphemism "sex" for a lady's parts makes my flesh creep. Of course, my preferred choice of slang term doesn't translate globally - Americans think I'm referring to something very different nearby.

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Date: 2006-11-14 12:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
I got that from Anais Nin. Actually, "nin" would be a nice name for the genitalia too. "At last I found the moist, welcoming nin of the octopus."

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Date: 2006-11-14 11:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wringham.livejournal.com
In other news, Momus seems to have enjoyed a cameo on Lost the other night:

"In [the episode], The Cost of Living, Nikki and Locke see a man with an eyepatch in one of the monitors. The mysterious man soon covers the camera with his hand, and nothing more is seen."

Image

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Date: 2006-11-14 03:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
Oh no, that looks nothing like me. In real life, I look much more sinister:

Image

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Date: 2006-11-14 03:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wringham.livejournal.com
Teehee! I'd prefer to have seen that on the show - a wooly-hatted pop star - emerging from the jungle astride of a polar bear.

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Date: 2006-11-14 03:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
Or there's my Star Trek look:

Image

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Date: 2006-11-14 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
momus you so craaaazy

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Date: 2006-11-14 11:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wringham.livejournal.com
I actually really like that. What might one call that one-sleeve tanktop affair?

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Date: 2006-11-14 06:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cap-scaleman.livejournal.com
Though being mysterious sex fantasies I don't feel ill, which I usually do when I am watching western real life porn.

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Date: 2006-11-15 08:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wingedwhale.livejournal.com
Perhaps you feel the way I do? That even though people say Japanese pornography, especially the animated stuff, is really grotesque and disturbing, I personally always feel sorta dirty after looking at mainstream Western pornography. It must be a Protestant thing, because I think it's the sense of guilt or "guilty pleasure." Even in really dark pieces, like with Araki, there's this playful sense that is very light.

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Date: 2006-11-15 08:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wingedwhale.livejournal.com
And sorry, I jumped subjects a lot, there.

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Date: 2006-11-15 10:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
I totally agree. Western porn is horrible.

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Date: 2006-11-15 06:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cap-scaleman.livejournal.com
And the subplots-of-the-pornplots are horrible too. When I think of it.

Hokusai

Date: 2006-11-15 06:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] qscrisp.livejournal.com
I haven't read all the comments, so someone might have mentioned this, and you probably know anyway, but there's a Hokusai influence here. The following image was pointed out to me by a friend:

Image

wardrobe malfunction

Date: 2006-11-16 08:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fascicle.livejournal.com

nah, the _Star Trek_ one lacks the seediness of the mains-powered
vibrator and the the damp-stained corner of the wall. Although you
do have a tunic to tug downwards, the swirly paint/plaster and the
over-varnished banisters are a design nightmare left behind by the
Wagon Train to the Stars.

Re: wardrobe malfunction

Date: 2006-11-20 02:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
That's not damp on the wall, that's rabbit-damage to the wallpaper!