Page 13, The Cub's Triumph

Page 13, The Cub's Triumph

This is a Japanese woodblock printed crepe paper book, telling a fairy tale story "The Cub's Triumph."

Hasegawa, Takejiro, 1853-1938

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

Published by T. Hasegawa. 17 Kami Negishi, Tokyo

Meiji 19, Month 12, Day 7 (Dec. 7, 1886)

Crepe Paper Book

Some days after, when all the food was finished, and they had begun to get hungry again, the badger said to the fox; "Now 'tis your turn to die." So the fox pretented to be dead, and the badger changed himself into a hunter, shouldered the fox, and went off to the town, where he made a good bargain, and sold her for a nice little sum of money. You have seen already that the badger was greedy and selfish. What do you think he did now!