Page 16, The Tongue Cut Sparrow

Page 16, 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

Published by 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

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English, Japanese

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Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 2

When the cross old woman who had cut the sparrow's tongue saw this, she was filled with envy, and went and asked her neighbor where the sparrow lived, and all about the way. "I will go too:" she said, and at once set out on her search. Again the sparrow brought out two wicker baskets and asked as before: "Will you take the heavy one, or shall I give you the light one?"