MICHAN AND THE ONI WOMEN

(Pleasant Grove, UT: Wormwood Press, 1997. stab binding in blue linen with exposed thread, blue clamshell box with peg closures. Wormwood Press. large oblong 4to. stab binding in blue linen with exposed thread, blue clamshell box with peg closures. (22) pages. Privately printed in an edition of 88 copies, of which this is one of 55 copies bound thus and signed by Chris Young and Day Christensen. Fine in fine clamshell box.



The eight prints were etched and printed by Chris Young. The book was designed, handset and printed by Day Christensen. The text paper is Kochi and the type is 18 point Caslon Old Face. Calligraphy on the title page was hand brushed by Toshiko Yoshizaki. Kuniko and Kazuko Terasawa kindly lent the kanji type.



Re-telling of a Japanese fold tale: "One morning while playing, Michan bumped a doll's head off his grandfather's workbench. It rolled outside and disappeared into a hole. Michan tried to reach it by stretching his arm down the opening, but the ground under Michan began to crumble away and he fell into the hole...