First there is a section of Ryder's translation of the Panchatantra on 115-35. Barnes and Co./London: Thomas Yoseloff Ltd. The back flap of the dust jacket gives an excellent account of the elements of the book's format, down to the traditional Japanese wrapping paper that makes up the dust jacket.ġ965 A Folklore Reader. The last story's last line speaks of smiles and laughter as "the only cures for gloom" (68). These engaging stories remind me of those in Perry's Aesopica, especially when a story that looks merely funny turns out to be a genuine fable. Perhaps three of the best of these stories are "One Hat, Two Heads" (34), "A Lord Disrobed" (36), and "Fox Trap" (40). A good example occurs in "Top Spinning" (62), where everything said about the men's tops can be applied as well to their penises. The stories' humor is generally slightly off-color, often dealing with the embarrassing revelation of older men's genitals or with word-plays on the male member. A comment on the original woodcuts spoke of "very strange paintings but somehow you will find them very fondable and attractive." The human representations are deliberately slightly askew, with strange faces and elongated arms. The texts added here are modern creations. This edition adds a characteristic tint to each of its three component books. This art's appeal was distinctly plebeian. The 1720 Toba-Picture Fan Targets were popular comic woodblocks, a prototype of cartoon books. Here is a curious book, starting from its unusual size of 5¼" x 9¼". $25 from McBlain Books, Hamden, CT, July, '02. Tokyo: A Weathermark Edition: John Weatherhill, Inc. 1965 A Cure for Gloom, being the full set of "Fan-Target Toba Pictures" as first published at Osaka, Japan, in 1720 plus fables with & without morals.
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