葬儀屋. [Sōgi-ya / The Undertaker].: In Japanese. Translation by 中山省三郎 [Shōzaburō Nakayama].

The book was designed by the Russian-born painter and graphic artist Varvara Bubnova (1886-1983). Her mother was distantly related to the prominent poet Alexander Pushkin. Varvara studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. In the early 1910s, she became a member of the Youth Union and participated in art exhibitions with Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, and David Burlyuk. Bubnova also worked for the Institute of Artistic Culture with, among others, Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Falk, Lyubov Popova, Varvara Stepanova, and Alexander Rodchenko. In 1923 she moved to Japan, where she lived until 1958, mainly as a teacher and developer of lithography. She taught Russian language and literature at Waseda University in Tokyo also. She was declared an undesirable alien in Japan in 1936 and deported from Tokyo. Bubnova's library and drawings burned after the attacks on Tokyo during WWII. In 1959 she returned to the USSR. The Japanese Emperor awarded Bubnova the Japanese Order of the Precious Crown in 1982.

The story was translated by Bubnova's student from Waseda University, poet and novelist Shozaburo Nakayama (1907-1947).

Pushkin in illustration, 1987. #904. Pouchkine illustre. P. 117.

We couldn't trace any copy of this edition in the USA via OCLC. One copy of this edition locates in The Netherlands, The Van Abbemuseum (Lemmens&Stommels collection).