ir of amorous cephalopods is to b…as on Japanese ukiyo-e artwork. Our class wouldn’t be discussing any of that, but I was enthralled. I read that forbidden chapter, and then other books that told me she wasn’t really a fisherman’s wife at all but a heroic princess who challenged the Dragon King for the sake of her family and paid a terrible price for her victory. Or, if that woodblock portrait of her tryst with a pair of amorous cephalopods is to be trusted, pe…