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A farmer's son is sent to train as a priest. He works as hard as he can in the temple, and in his spare time he draws pictures of cats. Nothing but cats, and on every surface he can find. The priests think he should be an artist, not a priest, and so they send him away. Soon, the boy's gift reveals itself in a surprising way.
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Japanese setting and is based on a Japanese folktale.
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