The serpent with eight heads.

Japanese fairy tale series no.9

[1888?]

1888

University of Otago Library Special Collections - PL 782 E8 JB4 no.9

s69

Hasegawa, Takejiro, 1853-1938.

Kobunsha

Griffith, Farran & Company.

Chirimen books are thought to have been invented in August 1885, when a Japanese fairy tale series was published by Hasegawa Takejiro (1853-1936). The books were illustrated by Sensei Eitaku. Thirty-one popular Japanese folktales were translated into English. Under special contract with Griffith, Farran & Co., the first 16 books of the fairy tale series were printed by Kobunsha with the Griffith, Farran & Company imprint. The special printings for Griffith, Farran & Company were published ca 1888. Pictured is the cover for no. 9. 'The Serpent with Eight Heads' showing the top half of the huge Eight-Headed Serpent - the other half spans the back cover of the book.

Hasegawa, Takejiro, 1853-1938

Book covers

Covers (Illustration)

Wood blocks

160 mm

Chirimen-bon : a book made of chirimen paper (crepe paper), illustrated with multi-colored woodblocks printed on one side of double leaves, bound with sewn and glued spines.

Presented to the Library by the University of Liverpool. 1958.

Japanese fairy tale series [Tokyo, The Kobunsha; London, Griffith, Farran, 188-?].

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Japanese fairy tale series.