Transcriber's Note
Illustrations have been moved next to the text to which they refer. Their locations may no longer correspond to the List of Illustrations.
The printed text contained both footnotes and endnotes. These have been combined, and all notes moved to the end of the text. A footnote on p. [39] ("The numbers refer to notes at the end of the volume.") explaining the printed system has been removed.
The following apparent errors have been corrected:
- [Advertisement page] "10s" changed to "10s."
- p. [11] (note) "pp. 156-7" changed to "pp. 156-7."
- [Illustration] (plan of stage) "at the ront" changed to "at the front"
- p. [15] "kakama" changed to "hakama"
- p. [30] "The world is at peace:/Soft blows" changed to "The world is at peace./Soft blow"
- p. [30] "very firs/In that they meet." changed to "very firs,/In that they meet"
- p. [31] (note) "p. 174" changed to "p. 174."
- p. [57] "Tōtomi" changed to "Tōtōmi"
- p. [81] "to Asuma" changed to "to Azuma"
- p. [103] "Playfellows." changed to "Playfellows.”"
- p. [104] "amusing.’" changed to "amusing."
The following possible errors have not been changed:
- p. [iv] right
- p. [31] contain the breeze
- p. [41] spring-time sprout
- pp. [55]-56 The line "When in their warships were the Taira clan," was repeated
- p. [65] face to face
- p. [67] Mismatched quotation marks following “In our last
- p. [68] to look upon
The following are used inconsistently:
- daimios and Daimios
- ideagraph and ideograph
- Kurō and Kuro
- lifelike and life-like
- lifelong and life-long
- ōtsuzumi and otsuzumi
- reincarnation and re-incarnation
- woodcut and wood-cut