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Plays of Old Japan

Note 60 — THE SUMIDA RIVER

Marie Carmichael Stopes translation

Page 83—“That word” is the word for “repute,” which has a root the same as “if true the name” in the famous poem which she quotes. The line depends on one of the Japanese “pivot words.”

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