The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter Paul J. Curtin an old man and woman

an old man and woman use their last scraps of flour to bake a small round bun

a first-of-its-kind collection of literature from and about the tallgrass bioregion

but towards the end (twenty years later) we are told that he has just turned fifty

Pages and binding in good condition

Year:  1953

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter Paul J. Curtin an old man and womanPreface by Donald Keene Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) was probably written late in the ninth or early in the tenth century. Mention at the end of the tale that smoke still rose from Mount Fuji , a sign it was an active volcano, is an important clue to the date of composition, for we know that by 905 A. D. the mountain had ceased to emit smoke. Regardless of exactly when the tale was first set down on paper, it is the oldest