Aesop's Tales 30

Title

en_US Aesop's Tales 30

Description

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: Japanese

en_US Mitsuo Tabei

Creator

en_US Nishimoto, Keisuke

Date

2016-01-25T16:18:14Z

en_US 1996-07

en_US 1995

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:18:14Z

Date Issued

en_US 1989

Abstract

en_US This softbound book offers thirty fables with lively colored illustrations. A second dust jacket partly covers the first! Many illustrations look as though they are celluloid stills taken from moving pictures. At times the colors are at best curious (as in the orange-dominated inside view of the ant-house on 35), and at other times they are great. Then again there is a strange mix of monochrome along with polychrome. The Japanese back-cover shows the ass with a statue, but I cannot find that story inside the book! Among the best images are those for The Doctor and the Eye-Sick Woman (36); the bandages set the occasion for theft perfectly. Might some pictures be out of sequence within their stories? Among the best illustrations are the defeathered crow (57), the toothless and clawless lion (60), and the close-up of the ant on the foot of the hunter who is about to shoot the dove (133). The image helps stress the irony in GGE (69): for this hen, giving its owners a golden egg means making them into aggressive enemies! On 73, the grand-mother shoots a gun at the wolf who thought she would throw out the child! On 94, the boar whets his teeth by taking them out of his mouth!

Identifier

en_US 4091013325

en_US 2541 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78080

Language

en_US jpn

Publisher

en_US Shogakukan

en_US Tokyo

Subject

en_US PA3855.J3 Y66 1989

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole