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Fairy Tales ahoyby ~jjmccullough

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I live in Japan at the moment (it's terrible, don't go), and I like to collect books of Japanese clip art. I bought one that had a page of ten incomprehensible pictures of random nonsense. I asked someone what they were pictures of, and he said they were scenes from famous Japanese folk tales.

It made me realize the prominent role fairy/folk tales play in one's culture. I decided to draw 10 pictures of what I believe to be the ten most influential folk tales of western society. If you're a good citizen of the western world, they should all be incredibly obvious. If you're Japanese, maybe not so much.

~Lord-Cephas 2 days ago

What's number 9 & 10 about?

!blondeewolf Dec 13, 2009 Hobbyist Writer

"(it's terrible, don't go)" Is it really that bad? Everyone I know would sell their soul to go!

Great job with The Emperor's Clothes and City Mouse and Country Mouse, most people don't realize how often we reference those stories.

~Elcool Aug 5, 2009

Have you tried showing this to Japanese? Did they actually failed to recognize them?

~jjmccullough Aug 3, 2009 Digital Artist

In retrospect, I think I should have included the Ugly Duckling and Chicken Little. I was trying to pick folk stories that are so deeply ingrained in our culture that we often unthinkingly reference them in casual conversation.