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Japanese World Masterpiece Anime Picture Books

2002 Aesop's Story 1 (Japanese).  Hideo Aya?.  Illustrated by Kobe Hikari; Rin Rinji; and Yoshiharu Shimizu.  Paperbound.  World Masterpiece Anime Picture book #19: Nagaoka Shoten.  $5 from an unknown source, August, '10.

There are four fables in this square booklet of 45 pages 5⅞" square.  In GA, one of the ants invites the grasshopper in during winter and feeds him.  In SW, the wind is frightening.  The young man goes swimming to cool himself off.  One of the booklet's best images is of the mouse slinking off in LM.  In TH, the hare is last seen lying exhausted a few feet from the finish line.  We have another copy with slight changes from 2010, and there is an online report of an edition in 2019.

2010 Aesop's Story 1 (Japanese).  Hideo Aya?  Illustrations by Kobe Hikari; Rin Rinji; and Yoshiharu Shimizu.  Paperbound.  World Masterpiece Anime Picture book #19:  Nagaoka Shoten.  $5 from an unknown source, August, '10.

This is a second copy of this book.  We have another copy with slight changes from 2002, and there is an online report of an edition in 2019.There are four fables in this square booklet of 45 pages 5⅞" square.  In GA, one of the ants invites the grasshopper in during winter and feeds him.  In SW, the wind is frightening.  The young man goes swimming to cool himself off.  One of the booklet's best images is of the mouse slinking off in LM.  In TH, the hare is last seen lying exhausted a few feet from the finish line.

 

 2003 Kasan Gitsune (Japanese).  Marie Terunuma.  Illustrated by Yukari Kobayashi.  Paperbound.  World Masterpiece Anime Picture book #37:  Nagaoka Shoten.  $5 from an unknown source, August, '10.

Apparently first published in 1999.  This booklet 5⅞" square expands the Aesopic fable of the fox-mother and eagle-mother to fill 45 pages.  The eagle grasps one young fox to feed her young.  Thereupon the fox finds a firebrand to bring to the tree to threaten to burn it down and so destroy the eagle's young.  The dramatic cover picture gives a good sense of the story.

 

  1999 Cat Which Became the Bride (Japanese).  Paperbound.  World Masterpiece Anime Picture book #38: Nagaoka Shoten.  $5 from an unknown source, August, '10.

This booklet 5⅞" square expands the Aesopic CW fable to fill 45 pages.  There seems to be an added phase in which the cat, now returned to her cat state, befriends her former husband who has become a concert pianist.  Earlier, on 36, the banished cat weeps.  The colorful cover presents both the cat and the bride.