Les Contes du Vieux Japon : Le moineau qui a la langue coupée. Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, ca. 1900.
(15.5 x 10.5 cm ) Unpaginated, 22 pages including covers, rear cover blank. Printed in color on crepe paper (chirimen-gami) to imitate silk. Bound with silk thread stitching. Most pages fully illustrated in ukiyo-e style art with text in French. Publisher on verso of cover. No date, but likely ca. 1900 or slightly earlier. No. 2 in the series of twenty from Les Contes du Vieux Japon (1885-1913). Front and rear external covers are faded with some staining and loss to vibrancy of pigment on front cover. Internally, crisp with some spotting throughout. Overall VERY GOOD condition.
French translation of the Japanese folktale, Shita-kiri suzume (The Tongue-Cut Sparrow).