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Yuko-chan and the Daruma doll : the adventures of a blind Japanese girl who saves her village / story and illustrations by Sunny Seki.
LIBRA PZ7.S45654 Yuk 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seki, Sunny, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Picture books.
- Daruma dolls--Fiction.
- Dolls--Fiction.
- Buddhist monasteries--Fiction.
- Blind people--Fiction.
- People with disabilities--Fiction.
- Orphans--Fiction.
- History.
- Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868--Juvenile fiction.
- Japan.
- Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Literature.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Children's nonfiction.
- Children's stories.
- Physical Description:
- 32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Tokyo : Tuttle Pub., [2012]
- Language Note:
- Parallel text in English and Japanese.
- Summary:
- After the 1783 eruption of Japan's Mount Asama destroys crops in nearby villages, a orphaned blind girl who lives at the Daruma Temple in Takasaki invents a doll representing a famed Buddhist monk and his teachings about resilience.
- Notes:
- Cultural notes are included on [p. 33].
- ISBN:
- 9784805311875
- 4805311878
- OCLC:
- 745979537
- Publisher Number:
- 99987197011
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