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Illustration plates

挿絵 ギャラリー

Every painting from I Slipped on a Poo!, hand-rendered in watercolor. Captions read in English and Japanese. Use the toggle to switch into the layout we ship to bookshops for in-store poster runs.

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Watercolor portrait of a Japanese black bear with a white crescent on its chest
Plate ITsukinowaguma

Japanese Black Bear

ツキノワグマ

A shaggy forest wanderer with a white crescent on its chest.

むねに 白い 三日月の しるしを もつ、森の さすらい人。

Watercolor on cold-press, 24 × 32 cm (9.4 × 12.6 in)

Watercolor: a tell-tale clue on the trail — bear scat full of berry seeds
Plate IISaisho no shirushi

The First Clue

さいしょの しるし

Berry-seed scat among roots and old reeds — late summer, bear.

ねっこと かれた あしの あいだの ベリーの たね。夏の おわり、クマだ。

Watercolor & ink, 24 × 32 cm (9.4 × 12.6 in)

Watercolor & ink: a red fox standing on a fallen log, looking back over its shoulder
Plate IIIKirikabu no kitsune

The Fox on the Log

切り株の キツネ

Sacred messenger of Inari, paused on a mossless log between bare trunks.

稲荷の つかい。木立の あいだ、こけのない 切り株で たちどまる。

Pen, ink & watercolor, 24 × 24 cm (9.4 × 9.4 in)

Watercolor & ink: a wild boar sow with her striped piglet in a winter forest
Plate IVInoshishi to uri-bō

Wild Boar & Uri-bō

イノシシと うりぼう

A sow and her melon-striped piglet, snuffling through a bare winter wood.

母イノシシと しま模様の うりぼう。冬の 森を ふんふんと あるく。

Pen, ink & watercolor, 24 × 24 cm (9.4 × 9.4 in)

Watercolor & ink: a green Japanese rat snake coiled on rocks at the edge of a birch forest
Plate VToguro wo maku Aodaishō

The Climber Coiled

とぐろを まく アオダイショウ

Japan's largest snake — a gentle climber, here resting between birches.

日本 さいだいの ヘビ。やさしい のぼりや、白樺の あいだで やすむ。

Pen, ink & watercolor, 24 × 24 cm (9.4 × 9.4 in)

Watercolor & ink: a tanuki (raccoon-dog) on a snowy stone bank under bare branches
Plate VIYukidoke no tanuki

Tanuki in the Thaw

雪どけの タヌキ

A real raccoon-dog — and a shape-shifting trickster in old folklore.

ほんものの アライグマイヌ。むかしばなしでは ばける いたずらもの。

Pen, ink & watercolor, 24 × 24 cm (9.4 × 9.4 in)

Ink and watercolour: Kintaro in his blue jacket and packed backpack stands at the open doorway, his spotted cat rising on its hind legs at his boots, while his parents get ready beside him
Plate VIIKintarō

Kintaro, age 8

キンタロウ、8さい

Notebook in one hand, pencil in the other — always making notes on his observations.

かた手に ノート、もう かた手に えんぴつ ── いつも かんさつの メモを とっている。

Watercolor on cold-press, 24 × 32 cm (9.4 × 12.6 in)

Ink and watercolour: thirteen Japanese animals sit in a row along a forest path, watching Kintaro walk ahead and wave back to them
Plate VIIITōjō suru ikimono-tachi

The Full Cast

登場する いきものたち

Thirteen animals of Japan, from Hokkaidō to the Amami islands.

北海道から 奄美の しまじまへ ── 日本の 13の いきもの。

Composite plate, 30 × 40 cm (11.8 × 15.7 in)

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