page o6, The Cub's Triumph

page o6, 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)

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Japanese fairy tale stories XX

Crepe Paper Book

you must buy food, and bring it into the forest. When I get a chance, I will run away, and come back to you, and we will eat our dinner together. Mind you wait for me, and don't eat any of it until I come. Next week it will be your turn to be dead and my turn to sell, do you see?" The fox thought this plan would do very well: so, as soon as the badger had lain down, and pretended to be dead, she said to her little cub,