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Izumo, Takeda, with Miyoshi Shoraku and Namiki Senryu : Chushingura, or The Treasury of Loyal Retainers

(Tokyo: Nakanishi-ya, 1910)

First edition thus. Translated by Jukichi Inouye. Demy 8vo; papered boards (detached); upper board gilt-lettered; pp. (viii) + xxxviii + 269 + (ii); attractive screen-printed folding colour frontis.; text illustrations. Boards detached, soiled and worn; backstrip missing; ownership inscription, dated April 1911, of resident of Daitotei, Formosa, to front free endpaper; screen-printed frontis. a little creased, but intact; some soiling and archival tape repairs to verso of final leaf; occasional fingering and light soiling. Requires rebinding. "Seventeen years ago appeared a translation of the Chushingura, in which I omitted three acts of the play with the object of making the thread of the story continuous. The edition, which was a small one, was soon exhausted. I was lately asked by Messrs. Nakanishiya to touch up my old translation for republication. I have, however, taken this opportunity to make a new and complete translation of the play; and I may say that the omissions in the present translation do not exceed ten lines, if so many, such omissions being unavoidable as where the passages convey no coherent meaning or where, notably in the bantering of Yuranosuke with Okaru in the seventh act, they are too indelicate for translation. In spite of its numerous defects, I trust the present work will at least give the reader some idea of the most popular version of the most famous vendetta in Japanese history." - From Translator's Preface

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