JAPAN.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Kitsune no yome-iri ("The Fox's Wedding"). A charming Meiji-era edition of this famous children's tale, following two young foxes from their first meeting through to their marriage ceremony. This type of literature experienced a resurgence in popularity during the 1880s as Western notions of childhood began to enter Japan, growing a market for age-appropriate stories with an instructional element.This is part of Tsutsumi Kichibee's ten-volume fairy-tale series. Other stories include The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, The Quarrel of the Monkey and the Crab, and The Old Man who made the Flowers Blossom.

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