Page 20, The Tongue Cut Sparrow

Page 20, The Tongue Cut Sparrow

Woodblock prints

Crepe paper

Fairy tales--Japan

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

Image/JPEG

English, Japanese

Document

Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 2

Crepe paper

she got back with it to her house. Then when she took off the lid and looked in a whole troop of frightful devils came bouncing out from the inside and at once tore the old woman to pieces.