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First published in the U.SJL 1966

Published in Great Britain by Martin Seeker & Warburg 1907

Published in Penguin Books 1971

Reprinted 1977

Copyright © New Directions, 1966

Made and printed in Great Britain by

Cox & Wyman Ltd, London, Reading and Fakenham Set in Intertype Times

Some of these stories have appeared previously in Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper's Bazaai, Japan Quarterly, and Today's Japan. The Priest of Shiga Temple and His Love' was published in the UNESCO collection Modem Japanese Stories by Eyre & Spottiswoode This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of landing or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser

To Philippe and Pauline de Rothschild