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Hammerhead Sharks, Japan, 1735

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Because I could not believe it myself, I went and checked and it seems to be authentic. Link to a digital version of the book (the picture appears on page 30): https://kokusho.nijl.ac.jp/biblio/100357933/1?ln=ja
This is the earliest example of a cartoony open smiley mouth I've ever seen. It's pretty obvious it was make to look cute when this is what a hammerhead's mouth actually looks like:
- His dick's out, of course he's happy. The drawing practically screams "I just had sex!".
- https://www.livescience.com/59895-oldest-known-smiley-face-emoji.html
  Not open but a cartoony smile. I feel like it might be anything though, some notation to indicate its contents or whatever else, but we don't know and probably won't ever know.
  Also, some more here:
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley#Language_and_communication
  
  None of those have that modern-feeling bean mouth look like the shark.
Ponyo...?
They look so happy, lmao
- 😁
Look like enemies you'd see in Banban.

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