Crabs!!

These crabs are wicked cool. They are Japanese Spider Crabs and their shells often resemble the face of a samurai. While not the heike crabs of legend they are still one of the raddest underwater creature I have ever seen....








Heike Crabs are also quite rad and on my list of "I want" tattoos. Japanese legend has it that after the battle of Dannoura the spirits of the defeated Heiki army were reincarnated into these heikegana (heike crabs). Their shells resembled scowling samura and fisherman, out of respect, would throw back the crabs with the angry man face anomaly. They look like this (for reference, I have yet to see one in person...)





Yoshitoshi was a fan of Heikegana as well....



Crabs rule.