Japanese Picture Books
A Rolling Rice Ball
retold by Junichi Yoda
illus. by Saburo Watanabe
This tale relates the story of how an old man’s rice ball rolls down a mousehole. It is the beginning of an adventure in which the man is invited by the mice into their underground home and presented with a chest of gold. Hearing of the episode, his neighbour tries to do the same, but…
26 x 21 cm,
32 pages,
Full-colour illustrations
First published June 1967
