Set a hook in tofu - Do something useless, as in carry water to the sea

Strangle someone with a silk cloth - Be very sweet, to force someone wearing silk gloves

To cut the head of a flee with an axe - Shoot with a canon on a mosquito

Let peas fall on a lying door - To use a lot of words, someone who can while talking cut a tree in length through

A fart of a kappa - A kappa is a mythological figure in Japan, who likes to bother people, it means a lot of noise about nothing

A child that doesn't look like his parents is a child of the devil - Is it a child born out of wedlock

The sayings are inspired by Kuwagata Keisai (also known as Kitao Masayoshi), who drew around 1800 the Japanese sayings. He changed the Japanese print traditions while using Dutch drawing techniques out of books.