ひまなこなべ（絵本）

出版社	あすなろ書房
初版年	2016年
ISBN	9784751528198
ページ数	32頁
サイズ	31×22
対象年齢	7歳から
キーワード	アイヌ　クマ　精神

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Little Pot of Leisure

ーAn Ainu Folktale

The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan. This picture book relates one of their folktales about a bear god who is killed by a human. Unable to forget an amazing dance by a youth at the ceremony to send him to heaven, he repeatedly comes back to earth in order to identify the youth, thus ensuring that the youth’s family prospers with meat and furs aplenty. The story teaches that humans are kept alive by nature and other lives. Drawing on traditional Ainu patterns, the illustrations capture the essence of this tale and make it easy to follow. <Sakuma>

• Text: Kayano, Shigeru | Illus. Doi, Kaya
• Asunaro Shobo
• 2016
• 32 pages
• 31×22
• ISBN 9784751528198
• Ages 7 +

Ainu; Bear; Spirit