Owl Lake
A father owl hunts through one northern night in Japanese woodblock prints: dark water, pale wings, and the long patience of a bird that must feed its young by dawn.
A Japanese woodblock picture book following a father owl hunting through a single night on a northern lake. Almost wordless, and the prints carry it: dark water, pale wings, and the long patience of a bird that must feed its young before dawn. Tejima made it in 1982, and it has never quite gone away.
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Maria Popova
the Japanese artist and storyteller Keizaburō Tejima beckoned the human imagination to enter the world of humanity’s most beloved bird with his 1982 book Owl Lake (public library).
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