The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales
by Lafcadio Hearn
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Talking tea kettles, a monstrous goblin-spider, miniature warriors, and other fanciful creatures abound in exotic tales brimming with warmth and whimsy. 11 excellently translated fables include "The Fountain of Youth," "The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumplings," "The Wooden Bowl," "My Lord Bag-o'-Rice," and more. 21 original illustrations by Yuko Green.Tags
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Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a fiction writer, critic, amateur engraver, and journalist. He wrote extensively about the cultures of Louisiana and is considered the first major Western chronicler of Japanese culture Delia Labarre is an independent scholar of Lafcadio Hearn and Louisiana culture. She lives in Baton Rouge Jefferson Humphries is show more chair of French studies at Louisiana State University show less
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- Canonical title
- The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales
- Important places
- Japan
- Disambiguation notice
- Eleven stories selected from Japanese Fairy Tales (1924). Please do not combine with other collections.
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- Children's Books, Fiction and Literature
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- 398.20952 — Social sciences Customs, etiquette & folklore Folklore Folk literature History, geographic treatment, biography Asian folktales Japanese folklore
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- PZ8 .B6455 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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