Īll designs in the publication are untitled this design is generally known in Japanese as Tako to ama, translated variously into English. In the text above the image the woman and the creatures express their mutual sexual pleasure from the encounter. The larger of the two mollusks performs cunnilingus on her, while the smaller one, his offspring, assists by fondling the woman's mouth and left nipple. The image depicts a woman, evidently an ama (a shell diver), enveloped in the limbs of two octopuses. The book is a work of shunga ( erotic art) within the ukiyo-e genre. The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife is the most famous image in Kinoe no Komatsu, published in three volumes from 1814.
Playing with themes popular in Japanese art, it depicts a young ama diver entwined sexually with a pair of octopuses. 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. 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. 1814 woodcut design by Japanese artist Hokusai
