a menagerie of imperfect beasts
Plate XXXI. The development of a bird. Le monde de la mer. 1866.
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Two rabbits. Ooishi Kuranosuke azumakudari: Bushido seika.[Kuranosuke Ooishi’s journey to the east: Essence of the samurai spirit.]1912.
“This is vol. 26 of the two-hundred-volume Tatsukawa bunko[Tatsukawa library] series, which is one of the most famous Taisho era popular fiction series. A pocket-sized story book.” Source.
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