1925 Children--LITTLE PICTURES OF JAPAN - MY TRAVELSHIP

THE BOOK HOUSE FOR CHILDREN --  COPYRIGHT 1925 --  PRINTED IN U.S.A.PICTURES ILLUSTRATED BY KATHERINE STURGESBook measures 11 2/8" x 8 1/2" wide.Front cover has waterspot by deer's right shoulder and small area of paint on back cover from another book that stuck to it.The inside of book is near perfect - no discolorations, wrinkles or tears.The book has the most wonderful color illustrations on almost every page.  They are beautiful and suitable for framing.Friends of Moon and Winds--so were the Japanese poets called who wrote the tiny poems that comprise the greater part of this book.  Dewdrops of smallest compass are they, yet mirroring in vivid flashes the whole of Japanese life.  In few words of primitive, child-like simplicity these old sages sang, for the little hokku poems are gems of only three lines comprising no more than seventeen syllables, the tiniest poems in the world. ... Read More