Caption title (incorrect): Old woman who lost her dumplings.
Story based on elements of various folk tales, including Jizō Jōdo and Soramame-no-Hashigo.
Illustrator anonymous.
On double leaves, Japanese style (fukuro toji), crepe paper (chirimen-bon).
Comprises multiple printings, some with publisher's 2-page list of "books on crêpe paper", some without (omitting one leaf at end, with colophon at end of text), and with variant text on inside front cover, and a succession of publisher addresses in the colophon. Perkins and Perkins record details only for the earliest printing, uncreped, and foreign issues with overseas publishers added. Regarding the bibliographical complexity of the Hasegawa Japanese fairy tales series, see BAL introduction to the Hearn entries; BAL lists 3 Tokyo-only printings, of which B, with "38 Hommura" address is the earliest (A and C have later "17 Kami Negishi" address).