The Diary of a Sparrow by Kazuko Watanabe. The Library Fellows of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. (1999) #106 of 125 copies. This inscribed by Kazuko Watanabe below the statement of limitation. 9 1/4 x 7 3/4 unpaginated hardcover with tissue dust jacket. DUST JACKET has no design. There is wear , small tears, about a 1/2" diameter hole on the back panel. BOOK has 10 preliminary pages: 2 blank, 1 title, 1 limitation, copyright, 1 contents backed by a blank, 3 preface and this backed by designed page - the 8 smaller sections each from 2 to 6 pages, separated by thick paper pages of art. These sections are "illustrated by the author with Japanese characters and original color etchings. Hinged and folded to be read as a conventional book or as a three-dimensional book-sculpture." - https://spec.lib.miamioh.edu/creativecodex/items/show/42.  There is light wear to the bottom of the spine. Otherwise, no previous owner markings. No unpublished tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages other than as designed. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. KE22a

"From 1895 to 1963, Enji Watanabe journaled about his childhood memories, new inventions, personal tragedies, and reactions to current events. In 1996, Kazuko Watanabe (b. 1949) translated her grandfather’s volumes to modern Japanese and English. Moved by his descriptions of periods of upheaval and transformation, Watanabe paired excerpts with her own prints in an accordion-style book." - https://nmwa.org/blog/5-fast-facts/5-fast-facts-word-art-and-5womenartists

“The eight stories in my book are small excerpts from my grandfather’s journals … English translations hand-printed in letterpress alternate with computer manipulated and photo-etched images of the Japanese manuscript and with my multiple-plate color etchings, and the book is bound so parts can be unfolded and all can be stood up on a table like a small house …” — Page 7, The Diary of a Sparrow

"We caught toads near the cavern at Mt Hachiman in Shimoyamamada. We tried to catch them at egg-laying time. We selected holes in the rice paddy or on the bank near the caverns. I put my hand into a hole, whereupon I felt a big, slippery, grotesque toad. I dragged this toad out, and an amazing thing happened. Two or three other toads were dragged out, holding on to the first one. We caught a few, then we took these to the medicine shop where they paid us three sen (3/100 yen)for each toad... With the money we earned, we ran into the candy shop the next day and bought all kinds of sweets and shared them with friends. This was such fun for us." an excerpt from the section 'The Oge, the last Nomads'