Crêpe paper fairy tale
[THOMPSON, David, translator] [Sensei EITAKU, illustrator] The Tongue-Cut Sparrow. [Tokyo, Japan] Takejiro Hasagawa, 17 Kaminegishi-cho. 1929.

8vo.; publisher’s crêped pictorial wrappers printed in woodblock colours with silk stab ties to spine; pp. [18], printed throughout on crêped Japanese-folded ‘washi’ or mulberry bark paper; illustrated throughout in rich woodblock colours; a delightful copy.

Sixteenth edition, of volume no. 2 in this famous chirimen-bon , or fairy tale book on crêpe paper. First published in 1887.  The whole series comprises twenty such volumes.