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MOMOTARO AND THE ISLAND OF OGRES
Non- Member Price : $19.95
Member Price : $17.95
The amazing adventures of Momotaro, a boy found inside a peach and raised by an elderly couple, is one of Japan's most popular folktales. And one of the finest illustrated versions of the tale known today appears in an exquisite handscroll painted by Kano Naganobu (1775-1828), in the Spencer Collection of The New York Public Library; those illustrations are reproduced here in their entirety.

Hardcover, illustrated in color throughout, 47 pages, 12¾ x 8¼ inches.



Item Number: 0807615528

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