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The Boy Who Drew Cats

"The Boy Who Drew Cats" is a Japanese fairy tale translated by Lafcadio Hearn, published in 1898, as number 23 of Hasegawa Takejirō's Japanese Fairy Tale Series. It was later included in Hearn's Japanese Fairy Tales.

Origin
This tale was known from Tohoku to Chugoku and Shikoku regions under the title . Some commentators trace the tale to the 15th century legends around Sesshū. ==Analyses==
Analyses
The legends surrounding the eminent inkbrush artist priest Sesshū as a young acolyte has been compared to this folktale, and even though the choice of artist was not the author/translator's, drawing catered to the American readers' taste for the fantastical, as in the example of the illustration showing the dead giant rat-ghoul. The tale is included as the second of 51 tales in the 1960 book, All Cats go to Heaven. ==Explanatory notes==
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