A mouse couple watch as competitors fight for the chance to marry their daughter, in a Japanese folktale that combines elements of traditional Japanese painting with a modern sense of humor
A mouse couple, in search of the mightiest husband for their daughter, approach the sun, the clouds, the wind, and a wall, before the unexpected victor finally appears.
The author recalls her happy childhood in Hiroshima, abruptly halted on August 6, 1945, when her known world was hideously destroyed by an atomic bomb.