Japanese Fairy Tales
Publisher: Kobunsha; then T. Hasegawa. Country: Japan. Date: 1885-1960s.
Detail from coloured illustration in
The Hare of Inaba. Retold by Mrs. T. H. James.
London & Sydney: Griffith, Farran & Co., 1896 (Japanese Fairy Tales, No 11).
Reprinted by T. Hasegawa for the original edition:
The Hare of Inaba. Retold by Mrs. T. H. James.
Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, 1896 (Japanese Fairy Tales, No 11)
JAPANESE FAIRY TALES (KOBUNSHA; TAKEJIRO HASEGAWA) - CHECKLIST
Series Note: This series was published by the innovative Japanese publisher Hasegawa Takejiro (1853-1938) who published books in European languages (English, French, German, Dutch, etc.) on Japanese subjects. The first books he published were issued under the "Kobunsha" imprint but from about 1889 he published under the names "T. Hasegawa" and "Hasegawa & Co.".
For the books he published in European languages he used foreign residents as translators and Japanese artists as illustrators, and this was the case with his Japanese Fairy Tales series. The first six volumes were translated by the American Presbyterian missionary Rev. David Thomson and later volumes were translated by James Curtis Hepburn, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Lafcadio Hearn and Kate James (the wife of Thomas H. James). The first volumes were illustrated by Kobayashi Eitaku and later volumes by other Japanese artists.
Many of the titles in this series were republished by Griffith, Farran & Co., of London and Sydney.
Serial Number / Title
1. Little Peachling
2. Tongue-Cut Sparrow
3. Battle of the Monkey and the Crab
4. The Old Man Who Made the Dead Trees Blossom
5. Katchi-Kachi Mountain
6. Nedzumi no Yome-Iri;
7. The Old Man and the Devils
8. Urashima, The Fisher-Boy
9. The Serpent With Eight Heads
10. The Matsuyama Mirror
11. The Hare of Inaba
12.The Cub's Triumph
13. The Silly Jelly-Fish
14. The Princes Fire-Flash and Fire-Fade
15. My Lord Bag-O'Rice
16. The Wooden Bowl
17. Schippeitaro
18. The Ogre's Arm
19. The Ogres of Oyeyama
20. The Enchanted Waterfall.
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