A coloring book of famous scenes from Japanese literature, including novels, folk tales, children's stories and poetry. The works include Night on the Galactic Railroad, Gauche the Cellist, The Red Candles and the Mermaid, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, The Grateful Crane, I Am a Cat, The Spider's Thread, Rashomon, Twenty-Four Eyes, The Tale of Genji and The Tale of the Heike. There are also pictures for poets such as Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki and Ishikawa Takuboku.
The back of each coloring page carries the text of that scene, so it can be read aloud before coloring. The book also includes postcard-size pictures and explains coloring techniques with color samples.
This is the 15th book in the "No ga Mirumiru Wakagaeru Nurie" series, which has over 500,000 copies in print in total. The series is supervised by Kimihiro Yoneyama, with coloring guidance by Hiroshi Yamazaki.
Translated from the Japanese original.