Page 05, The Tongue Cut Sparrow

Page 05, The Tongue Cut Sparrow

Woodblock prints

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, Tokyo, 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 book

wash-tub; but a sparrow that a woman her neighbor kept as a pet eat it up. Seeing this the cross old woman seized the sparrow, and saying: "you hateful thing!" cut its tongue and let it go. When the neighbor woman heard that her pet sparrow had got its tongue cut for its offense, she was greatly grieved, and set out with her husband over mountains and plains to find