News Nishiki-e: F*cked News of the Meiji Era

[Charles]

News Nishikie: The Art of Meiji Mayhem
Graphic true stories from Japan as portrayed and reported by woodblock artists and writers

Foreigner Kicks Woman

(courtesy of MeFi)

[Buraku]

saw that one before

No DIRTY Gajins
in our Jpn Stripper Clubs

Legend has it that all the Gaijin trouble started when Canadian Johnny-Edmonton a distant relation of the American Commodore Perry, came to Japan and got robbed by bunch of Yakuza pimps and brothel workers, the Yubin Hochi Shinbun reported nasty gaijin Johnny-Edmonton had no understanding of 'wa', Japan-uniqueness or "Mottainai". And bad boy Johnny-Edmonton seeked out his revenge and took out everyone who tried to steal his watch with a flying roundhouse kick back in the 1870s. From that day forth Japan placed many No-Gaijin signs on its sex-establishments and stripper clubs to keep the big bad foreigns like Johnny-Edmonton out.

[Mulboyne]

The picture appeared before but not the link. We like links.

[Charles]

The picture appeared before but not the link. We like links.

Forget that picture, there's plenty of other cool stuff on the site. I particularly recommend the Sashimi Murder Suicide.

A certain couple in Tatsuno, Banshu (present-day Hyogo prefecture) employed a female servant named Take. The husband fell in love with her and went to sleep with her every night. The wife was moved by deep jealousy and she spent her nights alone in tears. On April 15, while the husband was away, the wife summoned Take and stabbed her to death. She then gouged out the dead woman's genitals, sliced them and placed them on a platter. When the husband returned, she served it to her husband as hors d'ourvres. When he asked where the dish had come from, the wife replied, 'It was a gift from someone.' After he had finished the snack, he looked at his wife and saw her covered with blood and dead. While he had been eating, she had killed herself.

[Buraku]

great news