Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US Language note: Japanese

en_US Takeo Matsumura

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:18:15Z

en_US 1996-07

en_US 1949

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:18:15Z

Date Issued

en_US 1949

Abstract

en_US This traditional Japanese book features a lion, rabbit, and stag on its Japanese front-cover. Inside it has close to eighty fables, with plenty of lively cartoons to accompany them. Notice, e.g., the fox and goat on the second and fourth pages and the two illustrations for TB on the sixth. These cartoons might almost remind us of images generated from rubber stamps. A favorite of mine is the donkey that would become a lapdog on 21 (Japanese numbering). Another is King Log on 49. I do not think I have ever before seen pictured the story of the man who vowed to give the gods a hundred cattle and then fulfilled the vow with wax images; the god here wears a halo. In the illustration for CW near the end of the book, the woman leaves not her bed but the dinner table. How nice to be able to recognize so many old friends so far from home! The spine is deterioriating on this book.

Identifier

en_US 2543 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78082

Language

en_US jpn

Publisher

en_US Dainippon Yuubenkai Kodansha

en_US Tokyo

Subject

en_US PL856.A885 I86 1949 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole