The Grasshopper and the Ant: La Fontaine's Fables Vol. 1.
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1979
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A really beautiful set of three books. Pack and his wife picked this as their favorite when we reviewed a great day's findings from Kanda. In this first volume, a T of C at the Japanese front is followed by sixteen fables presented in Japanese script with delightful brown cartoons. Then on 57-61 we find the unadorned French texts going in the Western direction! The fables here include GA, SS (skipped in the French section), The Swallow and Her Young, BC, The Fox and the Rooster, Juno and the Peacock (skipped in the French), The Merchant, the Gentleman, the Shepherd, and the Son of the King, FK, The Fly and the Ant (skipped in the French), The Fisherman and the Small Fish, The Dying Farmer and His Sons, TB (skipped in the French), SW, The Animals Sick from the Plague, The Cat, the Weasel, and the Young Rabbit, and FG. The best of the illustrations, I think, are those for The Fly and the Ant and The Cat, the Weasel, and the Young Rabbit. The beautiful dust jacket and cover present a front stage whose top is formed by a frog, insects, suns, and grapes; on the stage are foxes, birds, camels, a bear sniffing a corpse, a weasel, two grasshoppers, and a smiling cat with a bell around its neck. The Japanese back cover features a grouping of sun, clouds, donkey, rooster, and peacock. Just about every character mentioned in the book gets into one of the two art works!
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Tamagawa University Press