1
Kuruzo, Kuruzo
Uchida Rintaro, Cho Shinta
Doshinsha, 1988


i
translation
Winter is coming and the whole forest is buried in snow. There has never been so much of it before. The animals hide, but the ground trembles and there is nowhere left to shelter. Who is it that is coming, who else is feeling the cold?

Coming, Coming 
text by Uchida Rintaro 
illustrations by Cho Shinta

4
Kuruzo, Kuruzo
Uchida Rintaro, Cho Shinta
Doshinsha, 1988


i
translation
Winter is coming and the whole forest is buried in snow. There has never been so much of it before. The animals hide, but the ground trembles and there is nowhere left to shelter. Who is it that is coming, who else is feeling the cold?

In the vast mountain landscape of Yamato there were forests aplenty. But how many is plenty? There were so many bears — two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, five hundred — and as for mice, there were too many to count.

6
Kuruzo, Kuruzo
Uchida Rintaro, Cho Shinta
Doshinsha, 1988


i
translation
Winter is coming and the whole forest is buried in snow. There has never been so much of it before. The animals hide, but the ground trembles and there is nowhere left to shelter. Who is it that is coming, who else is feeling the cold?

The snow fell for fifty days, and at last it stopped. But… the mountains and the forests — everything looked like this.

7
Kuruzo, Kuruzo
Uchida Rintaro, Cho Shinta
Doshinsha, 1988


i
translation
Winter is coming and the whole forest is buried in snow. There has never been so much of it before. The animals hide, but the ground trembles and there is nowhere left to shelter. Who is it that is coming, who else is feeling the cold?

When such a winter came, all the animals of the forest curled up in their dens. But the snow piled up and piled up, nothing but snow — there was nowhere left to hide. The wolf finally couldn't bear it any longer and began to complain: "It simply cannot be that the cold should come in the shape of a snowflake!" And just at that moment…

8
Kuruzo, Kuruzo
Uchida Rintaro, Cho Shinta
Doshinsha, 1988


i
translation
Winter is coming and the whole forest is buried in snow. There has never been so much of it before. The animals hide, but the ground trembles and there is nowhere left to shelter. Who is it that is coming, who else is feeling the cold?

Thud! The forest suddenly flew up out of the ground and floated in the air. And then…

10
Kuruzo, Kuruzo
Uchida Rintaro, Cho Shinta
Doshinsha, 1988


i
translation
Winter is coming and the whole forest is buried in snow. There has never been so much of it before. The animals hide, but the ground trembles and there is nowhere left to shelter. Who is it that is coming, who else is feeling the cold?

The surprised animals asked what was happening. Things buried in the snow rose up and turned into a forest.

17
Kuruzo, Kuruzo
Uchida Rintaro, Cho Shinta
Doshinsha, 1988


i
translation
Winter is coming and the whole forest is buried in snow. There has never been so much of it before. The animals hide, but the ground trembles and there is nowhere left to shelter. Who is it that is coming, who else is feeling the cold?

WHOOOOA!

18
Kuruzo, Kuruzo
Uchida Rintaro, Cho Shinta
Doshinsha, 1988


i
translation
Winter is coming and the whole forest is buried in snow. There has never been so much of it before. The animals hide, but the ground trembles and there is nowhere left to shelter. Who is it that is coming, who else is feeling the cold?

The forest was shaking so much from the cold — it asked the mountains of Yamato to turn the skipping rope, and thud — thud — it jumped and jumped.

Kuruzo, Kuruzo
Uchida Rintaro, Cho Shinta
Doshinsha
1988