The Tongue-Cut Sparrow
By: translated by M.E. Kirby
Series: Nihon mukashi banashi -- dai 6-hen; Iwaya's Fairy Tales of Old Japan
Publisher: Eigaku-Shimpō-sha; Hakubunkan
Published: 1903
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: mul; eng
Translated from: jpn
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Fairy tales; Children's stories, Japanese
Work titles: Shitakiri suzume English & Japanese
Description: After an old woman cuts the tongue out of her husband's pet sparrow and abandons the bird, her husband searches for his pet and is rewarded for his kindness with a box of treasure.
Notes: On cover: Iwaya Sazanami hen.

In English and Japanese. An advertising leaf on pink stock is found between the English and Japanese texts, which meet in the middle of the book.

Cover title.