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"The tinker & his tightrope dancing badger." An illustration by Sanchi Ogawa for "The Wonderful Teakettle" as retold by Teresa Pierce Willison in Japanese Fairy Tales (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1904). Ogawa's lovely color work decorates nearly every page.

      

"He curled up & was soon fast asleep." Sanchi Ogawa's illustration for "Shippetaro" a samurai legend in Teresa Pierce Willison's Japanese Fairy Tales.

   

"The clouds rang with a sound as of smitten bronze." Constance E. Rowlands' illustration for "The Story of Visu" in Wonder Tales of Old Japan (Philip Alan, 1924) as artfully retold by B. L. K. Henderson & C. Calvert.

      

"A Princess most wonderfully clad" is the frontispiece for Wonder Tales of Old Japan & goes with "One of the Oldest Stories in Japan." Constance E. Rowlands contributes eight color plates in all, plus a large number of black&white text illustrations.

      

 

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