The indisputable peak of artistic achievment - the He-gassen

by **Haggis_McMutton** on Fri Jun 14, 2013 6:29 am

wikipedia wrote:He-Gassen (Japanese: 屁合戦) is a Japanese art scroll created during the Edo period by an unknown artist or several unknown artists.[1] The scroll depicts various scenes with one peculiar characteristic reoccurring throughout the scroll, namely that at least one character is having a bout of flatulence directed against other characters.[1] The name of the scroll roughly translates to "Farting Competition" or "Fart Battle".[1] The scroll was made with the intention to highlight the political and social changes in Japan.[1] This scroll and other similar drawings were created in response to increasing intrusion of Europeans in Japan during the Edo period.[1]

Here's some choice samples, check this article for more, or the whole scroll here

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by **thegreekdog** on Fri Jun 14, 2013 7:31 am

+200 Saxbucks.

by **waauw** on Fri Jun 14, 2013 8:49 am

oooooh Japan, you are so wonderfully weird

by **2dimes** on Fri Jun 14, 2013 10:02 am

Just a cotton pickin' minute waauw! There is nothing weird about getting naked with your neighbors for some fart battles.

I love how someone "discovers" these and makes a thread every so often.

by **Army of GOD** on Fri Jun 14, 2013 11:22 am

Thought this thread was related to Helium

by **JBlombier** on Fri Jun 14, 2013 12:43 pm

Is this stuff on e-Bay? This is awesome.

by **thegreekdog** on Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:12 pm

I like the use of fans in the second-to-last comic.

by **BigBallinStalin** on Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:22 pm

A suitable punishment for the Western cat:

by **JBlombier** on Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:24 pm

A suitable picture for every 'kitten-argument'.

by **Haggis_McMutton** on Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:36 pm

JBlombier wrote:Is this stuff on e-Bay? This is awesome.

Here's a high quality version containing the whole scroll. You can probably make this into a poster and use it to tastefully decorate your living room.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Hegassen_scroll.jpg

by **Haggis_McMutton** on Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:39 pm

2dimes wrote:I love how someone "discovers" these and makes a thread every so often.

I searched "He-gassen" in the forums and nothing came up. So if this was posted before they didn't have the common courtesy to include the title of the work.

by **Army of GOD** on Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:42 pm

Haggis_McMutton wrote:
2dimes wrote:I love how someone "discovers" these and makes a thread every so often.

I searched "He-gassen" in the forums and nothing came up. So if this was posted before they didn't have the common courtesy to include the title of the work.

I don't understand how this is related to 4nickels's post

by **2dimes** on Fri Jun 14, 2013 4:39 pm

Sorry Mac, I was not trying to long cock you.

I seriously like how it's been done three times. It's worth re-doing if the search came up empty.

The other threads probably ended up getting locked possibly deleted.

by **Funkyterrance** on Fri Jun 14, 2013 5:03 pm

Now of course art is mostly subjective but I think these are pretty great.
I should think any 5th grade boy would agree with me. In fact, I think I may have found my nephew's next birthday present.