The Tale of Isoho

Japanese: 伊曾保物語 - いそほものがたり

A kana zoshi translation of Aesop's Fables. The Christian version of Aesop's Fables (the Old Bunroku Translation of the Tale of Isoho), published by the Amakusa Collegio in 1593, was the first translation of Western literature, and the original is in the possession of the British Museum. It is a well-written translation written in Roman characters in colloquial Japanese, and is an important resource for Japanese linguistics. There are also various other translations in literary Japanese, including an old movable type version from around the Keicho and Genna periods, and a fully-printed version published in 1659.
→ Related article: Amakusa version of the Tale of the Heike

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Japanese:

《イソップ物語》を翻訳した仮名草子。1593年天草のコレジヨで刊行されたキリシタン版《エソポのハブラス（文禄旧訳伊曾保物語）》は，西洋文学翻訳の最初のもので，原本は大英博物館蔵。こなれた口語訳のローマ字書きで，国語学上重要な資料。他に文語訳の慶長・元和ごろの古活字本，1659年刊の整版本の各種がある。
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