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vii Acknowledgments We would like to thank Tesshinsai Bunko, Ashizawa Misako, for permission to reproduce the illustrations from the copy of the Saga-bon edition in their possession. Many thanks also to Professor Yamamoto Tokur and Masumi Abe El-Khoury. We are grateful to Susan Tyler and Sharalyn Orbaugh for reading the manuscript and making suggestions, as well as to the two anonymous readers for the Press. Thanks go to Julien Butterlin for his original design of the volume, Ann Ludeman as managing editor of the project, Margaret Black for copyediting, and Patricia Crosby for her support . Joshua Mostow would like to acknowledge substantial support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. ...

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