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THENŌ PLAYSOF JAPAN

TRANSLATIONS BYARTHUR WALEY

A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems

“No better translations have appearedof Chinese poetry. He has given thereal feeling of Chinese poetry, its clarity,its suggestion, its perfect humanity.”

Amy Lowell.

“A magnificent volume.”

James L. Ford, New York Herald.

More Translations from the Chinese

“To those fortunate people who couldand did enjoy A Hundred and SeventyChinese Poems I would recommendMore Translations from the Chinese.”

Baltimore Evening Sun.

At all booksellers’ or from the Publisher

ALFRED A. KNOPF, New York

YOUNG WOMAN’S MASK

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THE NŌ PLAYS OF
JAPAN

BY
ARTHUR WALEY

NEW YORK
ALFRED · A · KNOPF
1922

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COPYRIGHT, 1922
BY ARTHUR WALEY

Published March, 1922

Set up and printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York, N. Y.
Bound by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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TO
DŌAMI

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CONTENTS

 PAGE
KEY TO PLANS12, 14
PLANS13, 15
INTRODUCTION17-29
NOTE ON BUDDHISM30-32
CHAPTER I
ATSUMORI36-44
IKUTA45-50
TSUNEMASA...

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