Plays of Old Japan: The 'No'

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[42] Page 67—That is in the year 1185.

[43] Page 67—Yoshitsune’s complete name was Kurō Hang wan Yoshitsune. One of these, or all three names may be applied to him. As the three names make an impossible encumbrance for a line I only give him one, even where the Japanese original calls him by his full name.

[44] Page 68—The jointed cape of his opponent’s armour.

[45] Page 68—The Minamoto clan were victorious, and when in power they banished Kagekiyo as a specially dangerous enemy.

[46] The Chorus here speaks for Kagekiyo to Hitomaru.

[47] Or Kwannon, the Goddess of Mercy, one of the principal deities in the popular religion of Japan to-day.

[48] = 807 A.D.

[49] The reign of Emperor Heize = 806-809 A.D.

[50] Page 78—Azuma is a name for the east of Japan, really the region surrounding Tokio (literally the eastern capital).

[51] The old capital in the west, Kioto.