The Yellow Jar (Songs of Our Ancestors;) [Hardcover]

Patrick Atangan (Author)

Book Description

Series: Songs of Our Ancestors; | Publication Date: December 2002

Introducing the delightfully precise and beautifully designed art of Patrick Atangan in a new series of adaptations of traditional Asian tales. This book, drawn in the ukiyo-e style (world of floating pictures), presents "The Yellow Jar" which centers around a simple fisherman and a beautiful maiden he takes as wife, after finding her in a magic jar. However, she is abducted by a demon warrior considerably more powerful than the simple fisherman. But the fisherman¹s resolve, even after many unsuccessful attempts to rescue her, does not flinch... In "Two Chrysanthemum Maidens", a monk is faced with two rather strange wild flowers in his carefully tended garden. They are wild and have planted themselves there at will. They are weeds but they are lovely like women.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

The comic book has been a foremost medium of literary adaptation since the 1940s success of Classics Illustrated. Comics adaptations have been notably truer to their sources than their principal rival, the movies, though often less than graphically distinguished. To render two magical Japanese legends, one about a fisherman who discovers a fair maiden in a big pot, the other about a monk whose fastidiously kept garden is invaded by two chrysanthemums, Atangan charmingly adopts the sharp outlines, boldly juxtaposed color fields, and striking compositions of eighteenth-century Japanese woodblock prints. He compensates a palette restricted mostly to earth tones with plenty of action that, eschewing martial-arts-like violence, is appropriate to the fairy-tale-like narratives. Ray Olson
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing (December 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561633313
• ISBN-13: 978-1561633319
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,008,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)