The paper book version of "The Deer-Star" was published!
We published "Amerindian Songs - The Deer Star" in the end of September, 2005. It is a special stylized version like an accordion, not a stitched book. It is a B6 book in size but if you open it all, you will find a very long drawing with a poem.
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Amerindian Songs "The Deer-Star"
English text: collected and re-expressed by Mary Austin
Drawings by Yukari Miyagi
The Japanese translation by Kazue Daikoku + Jeff Brower
Book design by Takashi Miyagwa
This is a story of a bright star, known as Sirius, that may be seen low down in the eastern sky at sunrise on summer mornings. The drawings and A Paiute Legend join together and melt into each other, running through the hills of desert, the fields of sage and the mesa of cactus like the wind. There is an attractive landscape horizontally chainging, and lively plants and creatures scattered on it: the poem, drawings and book design are much harmonized and the book will bring you a very dynamic and exciting experience.
All the poems, included the title piece "The Deer-Star" are shown both in English and Japaese.
Price: 1500 yen / U.S. $13.30 / Eur 11,30
Accordion binding: 64 pages (color 32 pages), Offset
Publisher: Happa-no-Kofu
Language: English and Japanese
Format: Accordion book, 71.65 x 5.04 in./64 pgs / 32 color
ISBN: 4-901274-06-6
The web version of this book: "Amerindian Songs - The Deer Star"
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Yukari Miyagi
She started her career as a freelance illustrator in 1992. Her works appeared in magazines, books and other media. She published "Reminiscence" as a private edition in 1998. She went on to publish "Chichi" in 1999, and "Ambrosia" in 2002. Her most recent book is "Kaguya, the bamboo princess" which was published by a Swiss independent publisher Nieves, in 2004.
From the left: "ambrosia", "Chichi", "Kaguya, the bamboo princess"
Mary Hunter Austin (1868 - 1934)
Writer, poet, naturalist, storyteller and feminist. On the other hand she worked collecting Amerindians' stories and poems, and translated them into English or re-expressed them in English, or wrote by herself inspired by them. These poems of "The Deer-Star" are from the works. She passed away in Santa Fe in 1934, after having lived for ten years in her adobe house which she much loved.
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