{"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","url":"https:\/\/syrovatskaya.com\/products\/funazaki-mt-head-atamayama-1973","provider":"Syrovatskaya Books \u0026 Curiosities","version":"1.0","type":"link"}