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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

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

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

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

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

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

Watercolor portrait of Kintaro, the young naturalist, with notebook and pencil
Plate VIIKintarō

Kintaro, age 8

キンタロウ、8さい

Notebook in one hand, pencil in the other — always looking down.

かた手に ノート、もう かた手に えんぴつ ── いつも 下を 見ている。

Watercolor on cold-press, 24 × 32 cm

Back cover featuring the full cast of animals from the World Nature Series
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

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