"The Boy Who Drew Cats" (Japanese: 猫を描いた少年 Hepburn: Neko wo egaita shōnen) 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. The original title in Hearn's manuscript was "The Artist of Cats". Printing it on plain paper as in the rest of the series did not meet with Hearn's approval, and this book became the first of a five-volume set by Hearn printed on crepe paper. Illustrations were by artist Suzuki Kason

2. THE BOY WHO DREW CATS
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HASEGAWA TAKEJIRO

3. A village in japan

6. See, how wonderful the village
sceneries.
Isn’t It?

7. In such a village lived a
farmer and his wife.

9. THEY HAD MANY
CHILDREN

12. THEIR YOUNGEST CHILD
WAS THE CLEVEREST IN
THE FAMILY..

13. BUT HE HAD A FAULT. HE
LOVED TO DRAW CATS.!!!

15. HE DREW CATS ON
EVERY BIT OF PAPER
THAT HE GETS…

16. HIS FATHER TOOK HIM TO A
PRIEST. THE PRIEST APPOINTED
HIM AS THE ACOLYTE.

18. BUT HE
CONTINUED
HIS HABIT

19. HE DREW PICTURES ON
TEMPLE SCREENS AND EVEN
ON THE PRIEST’S SACRED
TEXTS.

21. PRIEST
ASKED HIM
TO LEAVE
THE TEMPLE
AND GAVE
HIM A
ADVICE.

22. “AVOID LARGE
PLACES AT NIGHT
AnD KEEP tO sMALL.”

23. POOR BOY!!! HE LEFT THE TEMPLE
SORROWFULLY

24. HE MADE UP HIS
MIND TO GO TO A BIG
TEMPLE IN THE NEXT
VILLAGE

26. WHEN HE REACHED
THERE, HE DIDN’T MEET
ANYONE.

27. A GOBLIN WAS
RESIDING THERE.

29. WITHOUT AWARE OF ANY
THESE MATTERS, HE
ENTERED THE TEMPLE.

30. HE DREW CATS ON WALLS.

31. HE FELT SLEEPY.

32. AFTER SOMETIME, HE
HEARD AWFUL NOISE.
HE BECAME AFRAID.

33. NEXT MORNING,
HE CAME TO
KNOW WHAT
HAD HAPPENED.

34. HE REALISED THAT IT
WAS HIS CATS WHO
SAVED HIM!!!.

35. HE SAW GOBLIN’S
CORPSE!!!.

36. AFTERWARD, THE BOY
BECAME A VERY
FAMOUS ARTIST IN
JAPAN.

37. THANK YOU!!
PREPARED BY ANJU A
KEYI SAHIB TRAINING COLLEGE