Anthology containing Kazuo Umezu's short works from his kashihon period. Includes Kitsune ga Kureta Ki no Happa, the third installment of the Yamabiko Shimai series. 
1-2. Hana Kitsune (ハナ狐); Niji #12-13, 1960 
3. Yama no Hosomichi: Kuriko no Tegami (山の細道―栗子の手紙); Niji #33, 1962 
4. Tsukimisou no Shoujo (月見草の少女); Hana #19, 1960 
5. Furuki Taiboku wo Aisu (古き大木を愛す); Hana #18, 1960 
6. Miyamazakura (深山ざくら); Kaidan #59, 1963 
7. Menashi Jizou (目なし地蔵); Kaidan #72, 1964 
8-10. Kitsune ga Kureta Ki no Happa (狐がくれた木のはっぱ); Hana #10-12, 1965-1966

This story, also called Hebi Onna, is about the legend of the Snake-Woman. It is divided into 3 parts. 
1-5. Mama ga Kowai (ママがこわい) 
Yumiko's mother is hospitalized. But after being discharged, the mother is acting strange, she quickly reveals to be the Snake-Woman, and she wants to devor the poor Yumiko! 
6-14. Madara no Shoujo (まだらの少女) 
To recover from the events with the Snake-Woman, Yumiko is sent into the mountains to visit her cousin Kyouko. But at her arrival at the village, the people are afraid of Yumiko, saying that she is the Snake-Woman! 
15-29. Hebi Shoujo (へび少女) 
(This is the origin story of the Snake-Woman, and also the fourth installment of the Yamabiko Shimai series.) 
Youko is a friend of Satsuki and Kanna. Her family is cursed since the time her grand-father injured a snake guardian spirit. After Youko's last relative is killed by a giant snake, a strange woman from a neighbor village adopts her, but somehow, Satsuki is worried about her friend.

Second installment of the Yamabiko Shimai series. Satsuki and Kanna encounter a snake-shaped woman at a local pond, but thereafter they discover that this woman is the new step-mother of Fuyuko, one of their friends.

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