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So were the Japanese better at painting circa the 1700s and 1800s? Because you got a whole lot of paints of, uhhh, octopi…


That's hard to call. Both Europe and Japan seemed fine in that time period. Octopi or no octopi.


Octopuses or octopodes. Octopi is incorrect.


Tell that to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s...

(warning, NSFW)




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