104. Mori no ofuro [Animals' bath in the woods]

Author

Written and illustrated by Nishimura Toshio

Publisher

Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers

Year

2004

NDL call number

Y17-N08-J358

Commentary

All of the animals that have come to the forest to take a bath form a circle to wash the backs of the animals in front of them. The combination of the deep colors painted over dark colors in acrylic paint and the animals enjoying the bath is brilliant.