| The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife | |
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| Japanese: Tako to Ama (蛸と海女) | |
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| Artist | Hokusai |
| Year | 1814 |
| Type | Woodblock print |
| Medium | Paper |
| Dimensions | 19 cm × 27 cm (7.4 in × 10.5 in) |
The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (Japanese: 蛸と海女, Hepburn: Tako to Ama, "Octopus(es) and the Shell Diver"), also known as Girl Diver and Octopi, Diver and Two Octopi, etc., is a woodblock-printed design by the Japanese artist Hokusai. It is included in Kinoe no Komatsu ('Young Pines'), a three-volume book of shunga erotica first published in 1814, and has become Hokusai's most famous shunga design. Playing with themes popular in Japanese art, it depicts a young ama diver entwined sexually with a pair of octopuses.