Bamboo hats and a rice cake
Subtitle: a tale adapted from Japanese folklore
By: by Ann Tompert ; illustrated by Demi.
Contributors: Demi, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Folklore -- Japan.
Description: Wishing to have good fortune in the new year, an old man tries to trade his wife's kimono for rice cakes. Characters from the Japanese alphabet are incorporated into the text.