Literature: Finger Puppets

The Old Man with a Plump Finger Puppets

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• Description: Kobutori Jīsan or The Old Man with a Plump is a Japanese folklore about an old man who has a plump/tumor on his cheek and how he loses it when he joins a group of demons.
  For more information, visit: http://www.e-hon.jp/kobuto/kobe1.htm

• Links
  • Video of Kobutori Jisan from 1929 (in Japanese)

• Lesson Plans (All are in PDF format)

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