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-The translated dialogue flows smoothly making the plays easy to understand. This is something which is extremely helpful given that the language used in most plays in their original form is likely to be historically antiquated Japanese that can be difficult to understand even for native Japanese speakers.- --Diverse Japan blog

The translated dialogue flows smoothly making the plays easy to understand. This is something which is extremely helpful given that the language used in most plays in their original form is likely to be historically antiquated Japanese that can be difficult to understand even for native Japanese speakers. Diverse Japan blog

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A.L. Sadler (1882-1970) was Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney for 26 years, as well as Professor of Japanese at the Royal Military College of Australia. Among his other works are Shogun: The life of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese Tea Ceremony: Cha-no-ya, and Japanese Architecture: A Short History. Paul S. Atkins is Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Washington, Seattle. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he was educated at Stanford University, where he completed a Ph.D. in Japanese. His field of expertise is premodern Japanese literature, drama, and culture. Professor Atkins is the author of Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku and numerous articles on medieval Japanese theatre, fiction, poetry, poetics, and literary history.

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