I know that blog posts that are nothing more than links to other blog posts are somewhere between "lame" and "typical," but this is one we really can't pass up: Japanese Fart Scrolls.
Ultimately, I agree with the author's conclusion that farts are totally funny. However, to offer my own smarty-pants English student twist: it's extremely likely that this stuff is meant to be pornography, protected from detection by being unrecognizable as such to most people. Google James Joyce's letters to Nora Barnacle, for instance. Or don't, actually, if you're planning on eating anything today -- know that the best line (and the cleanest) reads, "I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women." I think my thesis mentor would agree that Joyce has something in common with the artist of He-Gassen. The fact that Japan produced a lot of porn in its history, especially the weird stuff (tentacles and the like), only confirms this hypothesis, as far as I'm concerned.
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