[Furukawa Taku] Anime Word Chain アニメ・しりとり

Tokyo: すばる書房, 1977.
Oblong 8vo. [32] pp., ill.

“More interesting than television, more interesting than manga” — the belly band’s claim, and the only edition of the book.

An 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.

Furukawa 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 Odoroki-ban (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.

Binding & condition

Original 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.

Rarity

No copy located outside Japan on OCLC.