Apparently

I'm trying to reset my internal clock to be on American time already. Seriously, sleep all day and be up all night? That sounds about right as an excuse.

So today (well, yesterday now I supposed) I woke up early so that my friend and I could go to the Kihokan. The Kihokan is the Beppu Sex Museum. We weere expecting it to be a legit museum, but it was in all honesty pretty raunchy.

So much so in fact, that I'm not posting the pictures here, or at least most of them. I'd have to set the blog to a mature filter. And because my mother checks the photobucket account frequently, I created an entirely alternate photobucket just to upload the pictures to, and I'll link that here.

Okay, so it's sort of a lie. There were some actual exhibits. There were plenty of idols, symbols, and statues that were worshipped in ancient times as sexual deities and for fertility and the like, and these were on display on the first floor. So there were statues of Buddha (Siddharta Gautama, not fat Buddha) making love to women, as well as just idols with oversized genitalia. Or, rocks in phallic shapes. PLENTY of those.

There was also a mini shrine with giant wooden dongs in it from the penis festival in Japan. Yes, that's a real thing. It's basically a celebration of fertility and sexuality, and they ride giant logs carved to look like penises through town, carried on the shoulders of their drunken fellows. Sounds like good fun. The mini shrine also had a tribute box and prayer incense, so I tossed a good 20 yen in there. You know, just to stay on the penis god's good side.

There were also old wood block art prints of depictions of sexual scenes, some of them more tasteful than others. The pride of the museum was a series of samurai and geisha that is apparently pretty old, so good for them.

That's pretty much where the actual museum related stuff ends. The rest of the exhibits were real dolls in sexy poses, a porn theater, a bucking saddle, a display where you can stick your hand into a hole and feel a fake breast, and things along those lines.

There was a real doll that was rigged up to appear like it was urinating for your viewing pleasure (you sick monsters), but that pales in my opinion to the wasx sculpture orgy scene of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. The wicked witch had a penis for a nose, if you can't tell by the pictures. Yeah. . .

So after spending time there, we left. And directly across the way we found a pet shrine, with Buddha holding a cat and dog. For some reason. So I paid tribute to that, and we walked along to Sukiya to get some delicious gyuudon. It was really good. Like, really.

Anyways, that was the end of that. We came back soon after that and I was exhausted so I took a nap. And the nap turned into legit sleep, so I wound up waking up late. And now the blog is late here, hurrah!

Ah well.

The pictures for the sex museum can be found at this link and the pictures from Usuki will be up STILL later. Sorry for the delay.

Tomorrow is cleaning day, so no exciting blog, but I think I'll be going to karaoke and onsen the day after so... so that probably won't be exciting either really.

Ah well.