Comments on: Cildren's book illustrations - 1920s Japan

Cildren's book illustrations - 1920s Japan

madamjujujive — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 07:34:40 -0800

Kodomo no kuni - children's book illustrations and songs from 1920s Japan. I found the artist's index the best way to navigate. (via the always entertaining quiddity)

By: btwillig

btwillig — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 07:58:28 -0800

This is why I love metafilter. Thanks, madam, these illustrations are superb.

By: runtina

runtina — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 08:06:40 -0800

Sort of reminds me of the Cricket Magazines I used to read as a kid, only much, much better! AWESOME.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 08:38:37 -0800

This is why I love jujujive

By: bashos_frog

bashos_frog — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 08:44:10 -0800

Thanks for this. My son is in bed now after a big day at Ueno Zoo, and a big evening matsuri (festival) and fireworks at our building complex. But tomorrow I am going to share some of the songs and pictures with him. (self links - largish jpegs.)

By: planetkyoto

planetkyoto — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 08:57:41 -0800

Coincidentally, I just got home from Jizo-bon children's festival to find this. I should learn some children's songs in Japanese for my baby to go with my Old Macdonald. This will be useful. Thanks MJ3! Notice that the colorful title graphic, the name "Kodomo no kuni" is written right to left, as was the style back when Japan was adapting to horizontal writing.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 09:04:44 -0800

beautiful : >

By: zaelic

zaelic — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 09:40:28 -0800

My Tokyo-born gurufurendo is dancing around the room singing the "Dance of the Rabbits" and now I have to arrange it for national slide guitar... she was really interested in the children's illustrations which were published right after the huge 1927 tokyo earthquake - much more somber.

By: magullo

magullo — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:38:02 -0800

Excellent

By: vorfeed

vorfeed — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 12:28:59 -0800

wow, these are great! What a wonderful magazine that must have been. There are lyrics and/or scores for quite a few of the songs online, in Japanese of course: The Moon in the Rain, The Rabbit's Dance, This Town, That Town, Boats of Leaves, and Taanki, Poonki.

By: lobakgo

lobakgo — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 15:41:33 -0800

Oh, these illustrations are mouth-wateringly delish. Yummm. And the songs are great. What an elegantly executed site.

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 22:54:07 -0800

Great find, thanks MJJJ!

By: jann

jann — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:10:59 -0800

tremendous!