Hōhi kassen emaki / The Fart Battle
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 83). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Insufficient evidence
Date or witness: 1449 CE
Region: Japan
Workbook date-sort bounds: 1449 CE to 1449 CE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
Buddhist clerics compete at farting; the final star is a nun aiming at a red fan. The museum suggests an old caricature was copied and supplied with new dialogue, a close premodern analogue to remixing.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
The1449 Fart Battle may copy older imagery with new dialogue.
What remains uncertain
The known production is associated with Prince Sadafusa and a specific scroll; its antecedent is inferred. This is a patronal remix, with no established independent ordinary uptake.
Workbook revision note: Reassessed using grassroots criteria