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THE NŌ PLAYS OF JAPAN
TRANSLATIONS BY ARTHUR WALEY
A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems
“No better translations have appeared of Chinese poetry. He has given the real 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 could and did enjoy A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems I would recommend More Translations from the Chinese.”
—Baltimore Evening Sun.
At all booksellers’ or from the Publisher
ALFRED A. KNOPF, New York
YOUNG WOMAN’S MASK
THE NŌ PLAYS OF
JAPAN
BY
ARTHUR WALEY
NEW YORK
ALFRED · A · KNOPF
1922
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
TO
DŌAMI