The Japanese wood cut from the early 1800s has spawned controversy for more than 200 years due to the sexual liaison between at young maiden shell diver and two octopi. In more modern times that has influenced Pablo Picasso's own rendition of the painting and a vast mount of Tenticle sex in Manga and Hentai
Katsushika Hokusai was the original painter and can attribute a great deal of his fame to this painting along with The great Wave Off Kanagawa from 36 views of Mount Fuji
The 1981 film Edo Porn is an excellent story of Hokusai's life and times.
