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This publication has received the William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation from the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies Committee on Japanese Studies.
English translation © 2018 Mark Gibeau.
Originally published in Japanese as Ningen shikkaku in 1948.
Except on the cover and title page, Japanese names in this book appear as family-name first.
Cover design by Linda Ronan incorporating a photograph © Andrés Cañal Cañal. Text design by Peter Goodman.
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p-ISBN: 978-1-61172-044-0
e-ISBN: 978-1-61172-932-0