Mushikuisama = [God of Bug Eater]

Authors

Mō hitotsu no kenkyūjo
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Files

Description

1 volume (approximately 200 pages) : all color illustrations. PARA PARA BOOKS ; Vol. 8. In slip case (40 x 100 x 23 mm). "Like a short animated film, conjuring up a fantastical world."--slip case. Flip book tracks a jewelled scarab as it burrows its way through the pages, carving out an entity of the Earth which in turn rises to ingest the insect itself. What follows is a transformation as the the newly formed hill deity sprouts colorful vegetation in a flourishing explosion of nature's mystery. Text in Japanese and English.

Publication Date

2013

Imprint / Year

Kyōto : Seigensha, 2013.

Publisher

Seigensha

City

Kyōto

Keywords

Flip books; toy and movable books; miniature books; nature in art; insects in art; もうひとつの研究所; God of Bug Eater.

Disciplines

Book and Paper

RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record

https://librarycat.risd.edu/record=b1493543~S5

Recommended Citation

Mō hitotsu no kenkyūjo; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "Mushikuisama = [God of Bug Eater]" (2013). Pop-up and Movable Books. 47.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_books_popupandmovablebooks/47