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The editor and publisher acknowledge with thanks permission granted to reproduce in his volume the following material. In most cases, revisions were made by the original translator or the editor.

From The Tale of Genji, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. Copyright © 1976 by Alfred A. Knopf. By permission of the publisher.

From A Collection of Tales from Uji: A Study and Translation of Uji Shūi Monogatari, translated by D. E. Mills. Copyright © 1970 by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.

From Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō, translated by Donald Keene. Copyright © 1967 by Columbia University Press. By permission of the publisher.

From Japanese Literature in Chinese, Vol. 1, translated by Burton Watson. Copyright © 1975 by Columbia University Press. By permission of the publisher.

From The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon, translated by Ivan Morris. Copyright © 1967 by Columbia University Press. By permission of the publisher.

From The Confessions of Lady Nijō, translated by Karen Brazell. Copyright © 1973 by Karen Brazell. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

From Miraculous Stories from the Japanese Buddhist Tradition, translated by Kyoko Nakamura. Copyright © 1973 by Harvard-Yenching Institute. By permission of the publisher.

From Donald Keene, “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter,” Monumenta Nipponica 11, no. 4 (1956). By permission of Sophia University.

From Jean Moore, “Senjūshō: Buddhist Tales of Renunciation,” Monumenta Nipponica 41, no. 2 (1986). By permission of Sophia University.

From Virginia Skord, “Monogusa Taro: From Rags to Riches and Beyond,” Monumenta Nipponica 44, no. 2 (1989). By permission of Sophia University.

“Lady Aoi,” from Japanese Noh Drama, Vol. 2, translated by Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkōkai. Copyright © 1959 by Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkōkai. By permission of the publisher.

“Atsumori” and “Pining Wind,” from Japanese Nō Drama, translated by Royall Tyler. Copyright © 1992 by Royall Tyler. By permission of Penguin Books.

From Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection, translated by Marian Ury. Copyright © 1979 by University of California Press. By permission of Debra B. Fisher.

From Robert Borgen, Sugawara no Michizane and the Early Heian Court. Copyright © 1994 by University of Hawaii Press. By permission of the publisher and author.

From Kojiki, translated by Donald Philippi. Copyright © 1968 by University of Tokyo Press. By permission of the publisher.