ELKA_027 ENDEL LEPA KURGIAED / SHIRIKODAMA / THE METHOD OF FISHING A KAPPA _ HOKUSAI / ENDEL LEPP
How to catch a Kappa (a monster living in streams) by Hokusai
Shirikodama
The image of the kappa extracting the shirikodama (尻子玉/尻小玉; lit. "buttocks-wee-ball") is a standard motif also.[91][184] This shirikodama is a fictive organ, though the folklore claims that a person bereft of it becomes funuke (lit. "organ-less", meaning stupefied or utterly unmotivated)[185] and the person may even die.[186][187]
It is also said the kappa eats this shirikodama, being its favorite food alongside cucumbers.[188][57]
The Bakemonno chakutōchō (夭怪着到牒; "Monster Catalogue". pub. 1788) depicts the scene of "Kawatarō extracts the shirikodama"[v] (Fig. right),[189] and according to the accompanying text, the kappa drags humans into water and devour their innards, and the victims are unable to ascend to heaven, becoming wandering ghosts that cannibalize each other.[190][191] It is unusual to find such explicit depiction of the extraction scene.[191]
In Hokusai manga (Volume 12[192]), there is an image of "The method of fishing a kappa",[w] where a man is squatting atop something like a swing sticking out his butt to lure out the kappa which is seen emerging from water.[193]
This superstition of a butt-ball organ may derive from the fact that drowned cadavers often have an "open anus" due to distended sphincter muscles.[194][195] A similar observation has been made by Minakata Kumagusu.[71][196]
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