“Scholars at elite institute Waseda University posted images from an Edo-era proto-manga scroll “War of the Farts”. Manga’s nascent beginnings are grounded in picture scrolls. Many of them depicted ...

Approximately 200-400 years ago during Japan’s Edo period, an unknown artist created what is easily the most profound demonstration of human aesthetics ever committed to parchment. I am referring to ...

These scrolls put the "art" in "fart." Yes, they are real, and yes, the figures in these artistic renderings are passing gas at one another. They're part of a scroll called the He-gassen. Reportedly ...