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| Copyright 1994 by Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York |
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| Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material, which has been adapted for the present volume: |
| Columbia University Press for "An Account of My Hut' by Paul Anderer, "Kalidasa's* Sakuntala*" and "The Mahabharata*'' by Barbara Stoler Miller, and "The Poetry of Matsuo Basho*" and "The Tale of Genji" by Haruo Shirane, from Approaches to the Asian Classics, Wm. Theodore de Bary, ed., copyright 1987 by Columbia University Press. |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., for "The Tale of Genji" by Edward Seidensticker and "Tang Poetry" by Burton Watson from The Great Ideas Today, copyright 1987 by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. |
| Permission for reprinting the translations of the waka by Ono no Komachi has been granted by: |
| Grove/Atlantic Monthly Press, Anthology of Japanese Literature, edited by Donald Keene, copyright 1955 by Grove Press. |
| Stanford University Press, Japanese Court Poetry, by Robert Brower and Earl Miner, copyright 1961 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. |
| Stanford University Press, Kokin Waka Shu*: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry, translated by Helen Craig McCullough, copyright 1985 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. |
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