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Plays of Old Japan

Note 21 — THE MAIDEN’S TOMB

Marie Carmichael Stopes translation

Page 44—According to an old tale a lover, crossing a pontoon bridge, fell between the boats and was drowned. The Chorus supposes the heroine to be thinking, “Like this man I too died because of love, and the ‘Bridge of Love’ is a name which is related (see note 11) to my own destiny.”

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