Aesop's Tales.

Title

en_US Aesop's Tales.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: Japanese

en_US Yukio Tsuchiya

Creator

en_US No Author

Contributor

en_US Wakana, Kei

Date

2016-01-25T16:18:16Z

en_US 1996-09

en_US 1995

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:18:16Z

Date Issued

en_US 1956

Abstract

en_US Shoji found this (and the accompanying third grade book) for me after I left Japan. What a wonderful gift! The book is structured as is the first volume: a T of C, thirty-one fables, and a guide for parents and teachers follow full-page colored pictures of MSA, The Lion in Love (a two page spread), and The Fox and the Boar. The front cover of the Japanese dust jacket features a fox holding a book and a lantern. Do not miss the muscular tree on 72! There is also a great fox stretching for the grapes on 165. In both the colored illustration at the front and the black-and-white cartoon on 198-99, the boar holds in his hand the tusk that he is sharpening. The story on 43-48 seems to me an adaptation of that of the astronomer who fell into the well: here an inattentive fox falls and gets only words and no help from the wolf. Another story hard for me to recognize at first is on 60-65: the military horse despises the ass but is hurt in war and becomes despised himself. On 66-71 we have the story of the fortune-teller who could not foresee the robbery of his own house. New to me is the story on 200-205: the ass regrets that he has no horns, and the monkey that he has no tail, but the blind mole tells them that he is content in his blindness.

Identifier

en_US 2548 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78087

Publisher

en_US Kaseisha

en_US Shinjuku, Tokyo

Subject

en_US PL839.S8736I864 1956

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole