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Pictures related to senryu or discussion found in
The Woman Without a Hole, otherwise named,
Octopussy, Dry Kidney & Blue Spots.

I read that senryu years after finding the cartoon by Kurogane, one of Japan's best known cartoonists of the pre-anime era. The cartoon is not in negative, but I have no time to check on what copyright allows, so . . .

The protagonist breaks off the crab's claw/s at some time and is reproached for that by the crab.  So he tries to give the poor creature some relief and this time . . . We will not see a picture here of what happens next, and maybe the accident does not happen -- for i can also recall the crab clamoring for a wife . . . but the point is we have crab masturbation.

It is possible there is an old picture predating the senryu, to, for senryu writers often borrowed ideas from art, such as is the case with

This early 19c print shows the penis pushing against the cervix from within and if you look closely you can even see a fish roe-like ceiling of the vagina!

I print it to 1) give an idea of the details -- consider that some argue (possibly wrongly) that Europeans were not even aware of the clitoris -- found swimming about the Japanese meme pool.  The writing, including senryu shares that detail.

Her bountiful pudenda  is flush to the windward and swollen with desire, though it doesn't seem to be letting any wind in yet. Japanese were adamant about foreplay and, doubtless, even the wind was expected to tickle her fancy before blowing up a storm.

After mentioning that
Japanese were adamant
about foreplay above,
 i thought i better show proof,
though my readers will already
know that from the many detailed
senryu on the subject in chapter 4.,
Ox Horn, Devil's Tongue &
 Self Consolation.

They will even
know the names of
all the fingers involved and
that using two fingers
is the proper and
typical way to
do what was
called

Finger Puppet
(yubi ningyo)

And, more important,
they will know that masturbation
was considered a responsible
way to guard one's chastity
and avoid wasting time
and money when one
should be working
for a better
future.

And, this, of course,
went for men and women.

Senryu get a kick out of the way it tended to come off and have to be fished out like a tape-worm.

The only previous Englishing of such senryu i know of was by someone who had not seen enough pictures for it was called a dildo: note, there is no higo dildo that i know of.

I was not afraid of copyright here. This was too ugly to show  in any way but the negative.

The story is mentioned in a note in ch. 4 which mentions various cartoons about konnyaku just to show that the food is not only used for sex  in senryu, but in cartoons, today.  It is a good prop for black humor.
 

As i probably wrote in the book, i have been at a year's end party where a young man waved a large Japanese beer bottle to show he was a horse as a bawdy song was sung and the 50ish secretary clicked together the shell of a tiny shellfish symbolic of a small vulva.

However, take care.  This party was held by my first employer in japan, a large translation company. At my next employer, a publisher with more sophisticated? employees, i got kidded for years for drinking half as much as i did at that earlier party and being too loud, etc...

The cartoon is by Suzuki

Senryu itself does not touch upon that, except indirectly by using the large vocabulary for sexual parts and various types and ranks of tools, one of which is karidaka, literally "goose-high," and meaning a glans that was something like the one pictured here.

I'll try to get the exact date on this later!

Konnyaku was also sold in balls, and these sex spots are known for oral sex, which you might have noted was found in senryu. Perhaps that explains one of the two frames that have a degrading feeling to them. I do not know why people go for that.  I print this only to show how the devil's tongue is used even today,

The horizontal bars of the sign, which comes from the outdoor gate to the Shrine called a torii  are in reality a bit closer.

Readers will know that the torii is also the place where old stewards with nothing better to do  supposedly stood about trying to see if any menstruating women might be trying to slip by and violate the premises.

This is the last cut from a several page cartoon story in a famous series called Pokochin Tengoku, if I have it right.

The girl's father or grandfather drew the mark on her when he knew she was going out on a hot date, and she who was so hot to trot never noticed, but he did and is afraid of violating the laws of purity.

Maybe it is because they are good for many diseases, but to senryu and to modern japanese men as well -- this is an ad from a magazine published in the 90's that promises that the ekisus or essence of suppon  will  help a man morph into a sexual giant, who can even satisfy his . . . . wife

with a "dreamed for second round"

See those veins?

In the sinosphere a man's glans is called a turtle head/neck. For this reason our shirts by that name get many laughs!