Chapter 12 UMI-BōZU

Place a large cuttlefish on a table, body upwards and tentacles downwards-and you will have before you the grotesque reality that first suggested the fancy of the Umi-Bōzu, or Priest of the Sea. For the great bald body in this position, with the staring eyes below, bears a distorted resemblance to the shaven head of a priest; while the crawling ten