{"title":"Children's Books","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"funazaki-mt-head-atamayama-1973","title":"[Funazaki Yoshihiko] Mt. Head あたま山","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTokyo: ポプラ社, Shōwa 48 [1973]. Illustrations by Hayashi Kyōzō (林恭三). Series: わらいの絵本, 1.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4to. 31, [1] pp., ill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition of this text and these illustrations — and probably the first book to show Hayashi Kyōzō’s clay-relief technique.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003erakugo\u003c\/em\u003e tale, told deadpan. Jimbē-san swallows cherry pits; a cherry tree grows out of the top of his head; crowds gather to picnic under it; the noise drives him to tear the tree out, leaving a hollow that fills with rain and becomes a lake — whereupon fishermen arrive and hook his nose. It ends as badly as it sounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by Funazaki Yoshihiko (1945–2015), who won the Akaitori Bungaku Shō the year after this book appeared and was placed on the Hans Christian Andersen honour list in 1976. Hayashi Kyōzō (b. 1939) built his figures as shallow three-dimensional objects in clay and then painted them. Yamamura Koji’s 2002 animated short of the story was nominated for an Academy Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBinding \u0026amp; condition\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal pictorial boards and pictorial dust jacket, illustrated endpapers. Near very good: jacket very faintly rubbed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eRarity\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo copy located outside Japan on OCLC.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Poplar-sha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58770878988636,"sku":"SYR-008","price":650.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/0654\/7804\/files\/item08-1.jpg?v=1787505875"},{"product_id":"furukawa-taku-anime-shiritori-1977","title":"[Furukawa Taku] Anime Word Chain アニメ・しりとり","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTokyo: すばる書房, 1977.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOblong 8vo. [32] pp., ill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“More interesting than television, more interesting than manga” — the belly band’s claim, and the only edition of the book.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn interactive children’s book built around a striped film sheet. Hold it above an illustration, leave a little air between the two, slide it slowly left to right, and the picture moves. Among the animals and landscapes are The Beatles and Dracula.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurukawa Taku (b. 1941) is an animator, illustrator and children’s author, president of the Japan Animation Association and an adviser to the Japan Cartoonists Association. His 1975 short \u003cem\u003eOdoroki-ban\u003c\/em\u003e (馿き盤) revived the nineteenth-century phenakistoscope and took the Special Jury Prize at Annecy. His son, Shuntaro Furukawa, is the president of Nintendo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBinding \u0026amp; condition\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal pictorial paper boards and pictorial dust jacket, with belly band. Publisher’s 1977 catalogue and reader’s card laid in. Near very good: light rubbing to the jacket spine, small tears, foxing to jacket and belly band.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eRarity\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo copy located outside Japan on OCLC.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Subaru Shobō","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58770879021404,"sku":"SYR-009","price":750.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/0654\/7804\/files\/item09-1.jpg?v=1787505905"},{"product_id":"sueyoshi-tongue-cut-sparrow-1995","title":"[Sueyoshi Akiko] Tongue-Cut Sparrow したきりすずめ","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTokyo: 講談社, 1995. Illustrations by Chō Shinta (長新太). Series: はじめてのおはなし絵本, 12.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8vo. 17, [1] pp. incl. wrappers, ill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMost likely the only edition carrying these illustrations.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe folk tale in its plainest form: a kind old man, his greedy wife, the sparrow whose tongue she cuts, and the \u003cem\u003eyōkai\u003c\/em\u003e who arrive to settle the account. A picture board book for the youngest readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated by Chō Shinta (1927–2005), known in Japan as the god of nonsense — illustrator, manga artist and children’s author, on the IBBY honour list in 1974 and Japan’s candidate for the Hans Christian Andersen illustration award in both 1998 and 2000.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBinding \u0026amp; condition\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal pictorial boards, issued without a title page. Near very good: very light wear to the corners and spine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eRarity\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo copy traced through OCLC or in Japanese libraries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kōdansha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58770879054172,"sku":"SYR-010","price":650.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/0654\/7804\/files\/item10-1.jpg?v=1787505904"}],"url":"https:\/\/syrovatskaya.com\/collections\/childrens-books.oembed","provider":"Syrovatskaya Books \u0026 Curiosities","version":"1.0","type":"link"}