Page 09, The Tongue Cut Sparrow

Page 09, The Tongue Cut Sparrow

This is a Japanese woodblock printed crepe paper book, describing the fairy tale "The Tongue Cut Sparrow."

Hasegawa, Takejiro, 1853-1938

Private collection, on loan to the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives, Connecticut College

T. Hasegawa, 17 Kami Negishi, Toyko, Japan

[Circa 1885], Meiji

Eitaku, Kobayashi, 1843-1890 (illustrator)

Copyright Connecticut College, 2014. For rights and reproduction requests, contact the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives at learcenter(at)conncoll(dot)edu

Image/JPEG

English, Japanese

Document

Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 2

crepe paper

its old master and mistress had come to see it, it rejoiced and brought them into its house and thanked them for their kindness in old times and spread a table for them, and loaded it with sake and fish till there was no more room, and made its wife and children and grand-children all serve the table. At last throwing away its drinking-cup it danced a jig