Creator
Koizumi Yakumo
Title
耳なし芳一 (Mimi-nashi Hōichi) = Hoichi the Earless
Coverage
Matsue, Japan
Publisher
Eishiro Abe Memorial Hall Public Interest Foundation
Date
2016
Description
The Abe Eishiro Memorial Museum is devoted to the life and work of the late Living National Treasure who worked to preserve traditional Japanese papermaking techniques. This illustrated book is printed on Izumo Mingeishi paper made by Eishiro’s grandson Abe Shinchiro. Hoichi the Earless recounts an old Japanese folk tale whose English translation first appeared in a 1904 short story collection by Lafcadio Hearn.
Source
From the collection of Dan Lipcan