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Japanese Fairy Tales-Battle of the Monkey and the Crab browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Woodblock Prints: Pre 1920: item # 916840 Please refer to our stock # COLL 9053-A5 when inquiring.
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The book is Illustrated by Sensei Eitaku, translated by David Thompson, published by Hasegawa, crepe paper with silk ties. This is No. 3 of the Japanese Fairy Tale Series, beautifully illustrated with color woodblocks printed by hand
The rich world of Japanese fantasy is very apparent in Japanese Fairy Tales, a compilation of twenty-two favorite stories from the land of the rising sun. A fantastic selection of ghouls, goblins and ogres; sea serpents and sea kings; kindly animals and magic birds; demons and dragons; princes and princesses hide within these pages. The book dates from the late Meiji period, circa 1900-1915. It is in generally good condition with some toning and some ragged edges – the silk ties are tight and in good condition. It measures 6” by 4” and is 3/8” thick. It consists of 18 pages including the back and cover. These books published by Takejiro Hasegawa fall under the Japanese generic descriptive title of Ehon ("e" - picture "hon" - book). They are generally bound in the traditional Japanese book binding style know as "fukuro-toji" which means "pouch binding." The majority of the books were crepe ("chirimen") paper. These are referred to as "chirimen-bon" (crepe paper book) in Japanese. The crepe paper process occurred between the printing process and binding processes. Hasegawa's books were uniformly of high quality in all aspects; paper, ink, execution of the art and text, printing (woodblock printing and Western type face text printing), assembly and binding.
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