2 p. l., xviii, [3], 48, [3] p. 22 cm

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Colophon: Here ends 'Certain noble plays of Japan:' from the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa, chosen and finished by Ezra Pound. Printed and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Cuala press, Churchtown, Dundrum, in the county of Dublin, Ireland. Finished on the twentieth day of July, in the year of the Sinn Fein rising, nineteen hundred and sixteen

Four plays of the "Noh" (spectacles performed at the court of the Shogun); the first three appeared, respectively, in "Poetry," "The Quarterly review," and "The Drama." cf. Introd. and "Notes."

"Three hundred and fifty copies of this book have been printed."

Nishikigi, a play in two acts by Motokiyo.--Hagoromo, a play in one act.--Kumasaka, a play in two acts by Ujinobu, adopted son of Motokijo.--Kagekiyo, a lay in one act, by Motokiyo

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