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.
- ISBN10 0517592738
- ISBN13 9780517592731
- Publish Date 10 August 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
- Format Hardcover
- Language English