CHIN CHIN KOBAKAMA. Japanese Fairy Tale. Rendered into English by Lafcadio Hearn.
Hearn, Lafcadio.
From Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 16 March 1998
From Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 16 March 1998
About this Item
Tokyo: Y. Nishinomiya, early 20th century. 24pp, unpaginated. 12mo. Crêpe paper bound with silk stab-ties. Beautifully illustrated throughout with full-color woodblock illustrations. Fine. Lafcadio Hearn (also known as Yakumo Koizui, 1850 - 1904) was a Greek-Irish writer and translator. Hearn's writings on Japan and its culture are considered some of the first to introduce the West to the nation and have remained influential in Japan due to their recordings of the pre-industrial Meiji era. The publisher and printer Y. Nishinomiya is described in "Chin Chin Kobakama" as the "[s]uccessor to T. Hasegawa." Takejiro Hasegawa (1853-1938) was an innovative Japanese publisher specializing in European-language books on Japanese subjects, notably fairy tales, poetry, and ephemera such as calendars, to help Japanese people learn foreign languages. "He chose traditional stories whose subjects would already be familiar to his readers and presented these tales in a Western format. The books would open in the Western manner, reading from left to right, and the illustrations would be positioned as adjuncts to the text, instead of having text superimposed on them in the traditional Japanese fashion" (Sharf). Seller Inventory # 010147
Bibliographic Details
Title: CHIN CHIN KOBAKAMA. Japanese Fairy Tale. ...
Publisher: Y. Nishinomiya, Tokyo
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine
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