publicdomainreview:Front cover to a ca. 1911 crepe-paper reprint of the Hare of Inaba, one of the ma
publicdomainreview:Front cover to a ca. 1911 crepe-paper reprint of the Hare of Inaba, one of the many splendid tales published in the Japanese Fairytale Series.⠀⠀From gift-bestowing sparrows and peach-born heroes to goblin spiders and dancing phantom cats — in a series of beautifully illustrated books, the majority printed on an unusual cloth-like crepe paper, the publisher Takejiro Hasegawa introduced Japanese folk tales to the West. In our latest essay “Woodblocks in Wonderland” Christopher DeCou explores how a pioneering cross-cultural endeavour gave rise to a magnificent chapter in the history of children’s publishing — click link in bio.⠀.⠀.⠀.⠀.⠀.⠀#hareofinaba #japan #japanesefolklore #fairytales #folktales #books #bookstagram #coverart #design #illustration #japaneseart #woodblockhttps://www.instagram.com/p/B1_6lTjn6Am/?igshid=s1s6ih5oeet9 -- source link
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