Samurai Fart Art of Japan | 10 Min History

Japan gave us The Great Wave. It also gave us 34 feet of fart scroll! 💨 When archivists at Waseda University unrolled a 34-foot Edo-period scroll, they expected samurai, landscapes, or elegant courtly scenes. What they got was 10 meters of pure, unhinged fart battle art, and it's one of the most fascinating windows into feudal Japanese culture you'll ever find. In this episode: The 34-foot Waseda hēgassen scroll and what's actually in it How fart art dates back to 12th-century Japanese monks Why the Edo period (1603–1868) became a golden age of...