The Little One
A girl found something little and dark on the street.
It seems to be visible only to her.
She was curious and tried to know “him”
He didn’t speak to her but invited her to his den, among an ordinary residential area.
The house was old. The girl explore the dark, old attic with "The Little One".
On this page, here are the scanned images of original illustrations which had made by dry-point etching.
These illustrations won an award "Purple island" in Nami Concours 2019.
They also exhibited at BIB 2019 in Bratislava, as one of the Japanese illustrators.

First published in 2018 as "くろいの" Kaisei-sha (Japan)
Then the book has been translated world wide:
2021 "The Little One" Enchanted lion Books (USA) 
2021 "LA PETITE CHOSE NOIRE" Le Cosmographe(France)
2022 "깜장이" 북뱅크 Bookbank-Books(South Korea)
2023 "La cosa nera" Topippitori (Italy)
Now they working on in China.