Anne Louise Averyさんのイラストまとめ

Cat Seen from Behind
猫図
1868
Kawabata Gyokushō (1842–1913)
@metmuseum

A rabbit in a pink kimono walks the tightrope holding a fish, whilst a suave fox announcer does complicated things with a fan.

Taisho era
1927
Unknown artist

Nishimura Hodo
Daffodils
1937
(Artelino)

A fox's wedding procession (狐の嫁入り) progressing joyfully through the billowing mist and rain.

Suzuki Nanrei 鈴木南嶺 (1775-1844)
@FreerSackler

A magical fox disguised as an elderly nun, contemplating a trap.
Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)

(Harvard Art Museums)

Walter Crane (1845-1915)
The North Wind And The Robin

"The north wind doth blow and we shall have snow,
And what will the robin do then, poor thing,
He’ll sit in a barn, and keep himself warm,
And hide his head under his wing, poor thing."

Compassionate Otake cared profoundly for all beings, however lowly. Here, a group of household bits and bobs - knives, fans, bowls, pestles - gathers to pray to their beloved Otake Dainichi Nyorai, who listens intently to their pleas.

Chiaki Okada's illustrations map the fragility and magic of childhood - a landscape peopled by gentle polar bears and melancholy cats and loving grandmothers and world-weary sheep dropping by for tea.

Feeding the Rabbits in the Bluebell Wood
Frederick Morgan
ca.1900

Once upon a time in 1890s Prague, a clerk at the General Financial Directorate, Artuš Scheiner, began to draw as a hobby & salve to the interminable paperwork. Before long, his romantic fairytale illustrations were being published to great acclaim across Europe. #FolkloreThursday