Page 8, The Hare of Inaba

Page 8, The Hare of Inaba

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

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

Crepe Paper Book

afterwards lay down in the sun and the wind to dry. But, as the salt water dried, the skin of his body all cracked and spilt with the sun and the wind, so that he was in terrible pain, and lay there crying, in a much worse state than he was before. Now the eighty-first brother was a long way behind the others, because he had the luggage to carry, but at last he came up, staggering under the weight of the heavy bag. When he sew the hare he asked, "Why are you lying there crying?" "Oh dear!" said the hare,