What's a Nara-based publisher's best mascot? Exactly, deers! (Attached image, regrettably b/w, from @NDLJP_en: https://t.co/0jqommETif) The book's from 1891. For some roughly contemporary French evidence of assaulting deers in Nara see here: https://t.co/QsGnvWGVAg https://t.co/24DJlj1Kvt https://t.co/u6xaKGA62W