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Under the Cherry Blossom Tree

An Old Japanese Tale

By Allen Say

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| Paperback | 9780618556151

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There were eggs in every bird's nest, the air buzzed with honeybees, and cherry trees blossomed all at once. The poor villagers forgot their cares and gathered in the meadow to sing and dance their time away. But their miserly landlord refused to be happy. Mumbling and grumbling, he sat all aloneContinue

There were eggs in every bird's nest, the air buzzed with honeybees, and cherry trees blossomed all at once. The poor villagers forgot their cares and gathered in the meadow to sing and dance their time away. But their miserly landlord refused to be happy. Mumbling and grumbling, he sat all alone eating a bowl of cherries and glaring at the merry villagers. Then, quite by accident, he swallowed a cherry pit. The pit began to sprout, and soon the landlord was the wonder of the villagea cherry tree was growing out of the top of his head! What happened to the cherry tree and to the wicked landlord is a favorite joke in Japan. Allen Say tells the story with wit and vitality, and his beautiful drawings complement this classic Japanese tale.

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  • I had this as a kid, and my brother and I both remember it well.[return][return]The closing image -- of the man tearing the tree out of his head, a pond forming in the resulting hole, and then the man finally tripping and falling into the pond and vanishing -- seems like a great allegory for some of ... (continue)

    I had this as a kid, and my brother and I both remember it well.[return][return]The closing image -- of the man tearing the tree out of his head, a pond forming in the resulting hole, and then the man finally tripping and falling into the pond and vanishing -- seems like a great allegory for some of the theory-of-religion arguments I've found myself trying to deal with lately.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 32 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 061855615X
  • ISBN-13: 9780618556151
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books
  • Pub date: May 31, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1419 mm x 1097 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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