the ghost at the feast

 (Known collected 1947-48.) Provenance Private placement, consignment. From the estate of Navy Hospital Corps servicewoman Jessie Mikkelsen stationed in Tokyo 1948-49.

can you imagine getting smushed into a paste on the 101 because some twink is too cheap to buy a vibrator and decided to merge into you

By Tamotsu Yato, Japan, 1960s

Leo and Diane Dillon, 1973

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Alien³ ambience.

The first Japanese edition of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (trans. Oda Masanobu, 1931)

woodblock print on paper

(1. Flying spaghetti monster, 2. Flying squirrel (?) by Kouichi Maekawa, 3. Desert rain frog ornament, 4. Terracotta animal head mask, 5. Ceramic frog-creature, 6. "a Friendly Beast" by RW Martin, 7. Hideous head-leg thing, 8. Pottery crab with human face Robert Wallace Martin, 9. Ploom the caterpillar (I think?))