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sekaiichi-happy · 8 months

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar, 82 yen stamps

#stamp #stamps #japanese stamps #the very hungry caterpillar #stamp collecting #cute #childrens books #sekaiichihappy scans #my scans

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monniebiloney · 2 years

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I’m Falling In Love With My Ping Monster, lol

#Pft he’s so cute <3 #Poor Buuki just hates him #too scary for buuki #buuki and the pinging monster #Picture book #Japanese picturebook #dog picture book #kickstarterfunded #Illustration #monster #children's books #children's book #japanese children books

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thefugitivesaint · 3 months

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タンポポノオヒッコシ (小波お伽絵文庫) Art by: Shigeru Hatsuyama (初山滋) and Suihou Yonai (米内穂豊) ''Dandelion Ohikkoshi'' by Sazanami Iwaya, 1944 Source My Japanese is non-existent so I have no idea who the artist here is or if my above "translation" is anywhere near accuracy (I used a few AI translators and got various results: "Dandelion No Hikkoshi" & "Tampopono-Ohikoshi", etc. So I'll assume the above English is wrong but it's what I've provided.)

Once again, if anyone out there wants to offer some clarity as to title and artist, feel free to benevolent should the fancy strike you. Edit (3/28/2024): The names of the artists and the author were supplied by sibk9. Also on offer is a book title translation, "The dandelions' move-in". I appreciate the effort.

#japanese artists #japanese children's books #birds #illustrations #children's books #picture books

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lepetitdragonvert · 1 year

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Anthology of Japanese Tales for Children

(The Fairy Tale Writers Association)

1926

#japanese artist #japanese tales #japanese fairy tales #fairy #fairy story #fairy tale #children's literature #children's books #vintage illustration #children's book #old illustration #1926

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samireads · 1 year

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Japanese lit 🇯🇵 ✌🏻

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dokushoclub · 3 months

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Currently reading: それでも人のつもりかな

I'm currently reading the Japanese children's book それでも人のつもりかな by 有島希音（ありしまきおん）about an isolated middle schooler named Hoshi Arisa. The target audience are children in the upper years of elementary school and first year of middle school, so 11-13 year-olds.

This book has been on my shelf for a while. What got me interested was that the main character is multiethnic Japanese and I was interested how this would be depicted for that age group. I've read the first two chapters now and so far the book talks mostly about the severe bullying and Arisa's estranged relationship to her mother. Her homeroom teacher is trying to reach out to her, though, and I'm curious to see how this unfolds.

The titel is based on an haiku, btw:

ハンノキのそれでも花のつもりかな

(by Kobayashi Issa)

#my book reviews #reading in japanese #japanese books #japanese children's book #それでも花のつもりかな #有島希音

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jpf-sydney · 5 days

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Noraneko Gundan aiueo

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Shelf: 811.5 KUD (@ children's book section) Noraneko Gundan aiueo. by Kudō Noriko.

Tōkyō : Hakusensha, 2017. ISBN: 9784592762096

[24] unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 21 x 21 cm. (Kodomoe no ehon).

Revised and enlarged of the supplementary content of a bimounthly magazine "Kodomoe" 2017 February issue. Text in Japanese, hiragana and katakana only.

#picture books for children #japanese language #hiragana #katakana #jlearner #jteacher

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pagansphinx · 6 months

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J from Anno’s Alphabet, An Adventure in Imagination • 1974 • Mitsumasa Anno (1926-2020) • 1974

#mitsumasa anno #illustration #book illustration #author/illustrator #picture book illustration #japanese author #art #watercolor illustration #painting #children's literature #pagan sphinx art blog

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nyx-b-log · 10 months

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it's saturday so time for an update!

would you believe i actually finished children of time oh my god it took so long to read asdfghjkl but! i enjoyed it. i maintain that the spider sections are far and away the best part - the human drama wasn't compelling to me until maybe the last 100 pages or so, and the relationship between holsten and lain is paper-thin and dull (imo). the world-building tho (evolution-building? ig) is fantastic and only gets better as the book goes on. like, ant supercomputers!! what!!! i've honestly only come to appreciate the book more as it gets more time to breathe in my head. i was a bit on the fence on whether i would continue the series, but i'm looking forward to it now!

also finished the martian, which had some bonus material at the end i'd never read before, which was an unexpected delight. was a bit of a strange experience finishing it and then almost immediately the news on titan coming out. ofc the two situations aren't entirely comparable, but i couldn't help thinking about it.

haven't started a new physical book yet, but my next audiobook is the left-handed book sellers of london by garth nix, a young adult fantasy set in an alternate 1980s london. characters are ehhh and plot is glacial but the world-building is clearly where all the passion is. could be a bit info-dumpy for some people, but i'm enjoying it. also the clothes descriptions, the clothes oh my god. surprised it doesn't have a queer tag on goodreads, main character susan is very much bisexual (and punky af, at least aesthetically) while merlin's approach to gender is incredibly loose (and affirmed throughout). i'm roughly halfway through, should have finished it by next week i think.

that's all for now! see you again next week!

#bookblr #books #reading #children of time #the martian #the left handed booksellers of london #japanese reading has now trended towards slightly trashy bl #so uh #nothing new on that front #think i'll read house in the cerulean sea next #i do have a queer textbook but my brain's just not in it #scheduled

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pleuvoire · 9 months

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i am reading temple alley summer by sachiko kashiwaba. it is a kids’/middle grade book about a kid who sees a ghost at night and the next day she is a student at his school and everyone seems to remember her but him. and as it goes on he has to try to protect her against adults who believe that it’s unfair for dead people to get a second chance at life. i’m enjoying it a lot so far, the atmosphere is nice and the suspense has me hooked and the emotionality of a girl who died young getting to be alive again and having a chance to grow up is really getting to me. i’m so nervous that someone might exorcise her at the end, i really want her to survive and get to grow up. this is a really good book. i love middle grade fiction so much

#i am also thinking of buying the untranslated original #because i think i might have a better chance at reading books in japanese if they’re children’s books #rosemary reads

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have-you-read-this-short-fiction · 3 months

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*Originally published in Japanese under the title "Kami no Kodomo-tachi wa Mina Odoru" which is literally translated as "All God's Children Can Dance"

#short story collection #short story collections #after the quake #kami no kodomo-tachi wa mina odoru #all god's children can dance #haruki murakami #japanese literature #japanese language literature #20th century literature #21st century literature #have you read this short fiction?#book polls #completed polls

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goliadkine · 11 months

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Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, the Joan of Arc series, I-VI, 1906-1910, (Washington DC National Gallery of Art, usa.)

#firstly im pissed off that i had to type an aristocratic surname on my blog #but the slay is undeniable and it is the 30th of may so #long convoluted history these paintings but basically #somewhat renouned history and portrait painter writes and illustrates a children's book about joan of arc #which rides the post prussian war nationalist reimagining of joan as a patriot heroine in litterature and the arts in general #in a wider medievalist revival context #also nationalist in part #the cathedral of damremont (joan of arc's native town) commissions Monvel a cycle of frescoes #based on the compositions of the book #monsieur louis maurice dies only having completed two whoops #but had time to finish the cycle in oils and smaller scale for an american senator #and now they're in washington dc #you can zoom in pretty well on their website which is well worth it imo #joan of arc #art #mine #uccello for children from someone who has seen a lot of japanese engraving #the michel ocelot serve of it all

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thefugitivesaint · 2 months

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Mitsushi Haneishi, ''Tales from the Land of Brahma' (梵天国物語), 1954 (Source)

Uzaburo Mino, ''Flying Horse'' (空とぶ木馬), 1954 (Source)

I'm probably not translating these titles correctly so bear with me here given my use of various "translation algorithms" to help me along. I was digging through Japan's 'National Diet Library' to see what's buried in there and came across two books with interestingly similar panel illustrations. I couldn't dig up much more information than what's provided in the NDL archive itself on the artists but that's probably due to my own limitations given I don't read nor speak Japanese.

#Japanese artists #showa era #Showa era illustration #horses #flying horses #children's books

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love1kimono · 2 months

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Warwick Goble, Dancer of Yedo