Shiroi Tsue ni Tayoritsutsu [Relying on a White Cane]

San Francisco / Osaka: Oriental Culture Book Co, 1962. Very good.. [2],158,[1]pp., plus photographic frontispiece portrait. Original green cloth, gilt spine titles. Minor wear. A rare autobiography by the blind Japanese American author; Mihara's photo shows him reading a Braille bible with his fingertips. When Mihara was interned at Heart Mountain (where he lost his sight due to poor medical care), he created a pioneering Japanese Braille board.  OCLC records just three institutional holdings -- UCLA, the Bancroft, and Ohio State.