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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

namazu-e

I didn't think your day would be complete without seeing those earthquake catfish pictures.

These metaphoric catfish did not necessarily correspond to an actual species of fish, and I refer to them here by their Japanese name, namazu. The general name of catfish prints, which included visual elements and text, is namazu-e, with "e" meaning picture.

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jsh/39.4/smits.html

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