Kuroda Seiki, Japanese
Mattel Has Had Many Successful Toy Launches Over the Years, But Forgetful Nudist Barbie™ Was Not One of Them, 1899
Oil on canvas
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Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here, here, here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated Japanese Wikipedia page has more).
/// Stripper Naki, when baring her boobs,
would hear nonsense from ignorant rubes:
“Girls from Nippon, (or China),
have a slanted vagina.”
She disproved it by waxing her pubes.
/// Naki stripped for American troops,
who would watch her in large drunken groups.
In her club near the base
she was voted “first place,”
for a body on which nothing droops.
/// Several soldiers, by strong drink polluted,
claimed this stripper had, to them, saluted.
She was shielding her face,
(saving face from disgrace),
lest her family be badly reputed.
/// With her left hand she’s making a sign,
like an “OK,” (that everything’s fine).
But her pointer and thumb
do not, in contact, come,
and I think that this was by design.
/// With those fingers apart, it means “small.”
She subconsciously starts to recall
the sailor who’d try
to make her “Butterfly;”
he was tiny and missing a ball.
/// The young lady owns many a merkin;
she has tubs of ‘em, filling a firkin.
But if she should cough,
the darned thing falls off.
The glue that she used isn’t workin.’
/// They were all made from real human hair,
and constructed with skilled loving care.
Some were shaggy, some short,
shapes of every sort,
and without ‘em, she’s bald— how unfair!
/// Before scrapping this Barbie again,
Mattel thought, “Let’s appeal to the men.”
But it still didn’t sell,
which may be just as well.
No one needed a “Cross-gender Ken.”