Page 5, Battle of the Monkey and the Crab
Title
Page 5, Battle of the Monkey and the Crab
Creator
Hasegawa, Takejiro, 1853-1938
Source
Private collection, on loan to Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives, Connecticut College
Publisher
[Published by T.Hasegawa.]
Date
Meiji 18, Month 8, Day 17 (Aug. 8, 1885)
Text
once it sprung up, and soon became a tree so high one had to look up at it. The tree was full of persimmons but the crab had no means of climbing the tree. So he asked the monkey to climb up and get the persimmons for him. The monkey got up on a limb of the tree and began to eat the persimmons. The unripe persimmons he threw at the crab, but
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