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vii Acknowledgments • For their enthusiastic support, wise guidance and many acts of kindness, I would like to thank Ted Goossen, Miya Narushima, Sonja Arntzen, Atsuko Sakaki, Sarah Strong, Susie Schmidt, Kim Kyong Suk and my husband Michael Donnelly. I would also like to thank the anonymous reader for several helpful suggestions. Any errors or omissions are, of course, entirely my responsibility. I am very grateful to Michiko Wilson, editor of the Japanese Horizons series, for selecting my manuscript. Heartfelt thanks to Mai Shaikhanuar-Cota, managing editor of CEAS, for working so hard to bring this book to press. Finally, I would like to express my deep gratitude to the author, Masuda Mizuko, for her generous cooperation with this project and her everlasting patience. I hope I have done justice to her writing. This page intentionally left blank. ...

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