12: Fables

Title

en_US 12: Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Japanese

en_US Rani

Creator

en_US No Author

Contributor

en_US Kuma

Date

2016-01-25T19:59:22Z

en_US 2008-10

en_US 1955?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:59:22Z

Date Issued

en_US 1955

Abstract

en_US This is a typical Japanese fable book as I have come to know them. I am guessing that it is in a series of twenty-five books. They are listed on the last page, which for Western readers is where we look for the first page. This book is the twelfth in that series. A title-page is followed by two single-page colored pictures and, between them, a colored double-page. These depict The Man Who Lost His Axe, The Bat in the War Between Animals and Birds, and The Lion Against Three Bulls. As Teresa Johanson notes, these are in bright glossy colors. A T of C then lists the twenty-six fables and the afterword, which includes a detail from Velasquez' portrait of Aesop. Another colored page appears suddenly at 55; it seems to portray The Ass in a Wolf's Skin or perhaps The Ass in a Bear's Skin. There are mysteries here! Again there is an unusual depiction of GA in color on 83. Though the ants live in a human building, both the ants and the grasshopper are in animal rather than human form. Teresa counts 34 illustrations in black and white, all -- like the colored illustrations -- signed KUMA. I have several questions as I look through the book. What is that giant ball on 91? Might this be the story of Hercules and the mired wagon? Bright, clean pictorial binding. Kuma is especially successful at depicting the eyes of the mice in TMCM (42-50).

Identifier

en_US 6828 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82134

Subject

en_US PA3855.J3 H57 1966

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole