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Translations of 19 noh and nine kyogen plays seeking to produce English poetry which reproduces the 'texture of the Japanese'... an experiment in translating the 'untranslatable' word play which provides so much of the effect of noh in the original.

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Translations of 19 no and nine kyogen plays seeking to produce English poetry which reproduces the 'texture of the Japanese' ... an experiment in translating the 'untranslatable' word play which provides so much of the effect of no in the original. -- Susan Matisoff * Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese *

Translations of 19 no and nine kyogen plays seeking to produce English poetry which reproduces the 'texture of the Japanese' ... an experiment in translating the 'untranslatable' word play which provides so much of the effect of no in the original. -- Susan Matisoff * Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese *

Translations of 19 no and nine kyogen plays seeking to produce English poetry which reproduces the 'texture of the Japanese' ... an experiment in translating the 'untranslatable' word play which provides so much of the effect of no in the original. --Susan Matisoff Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese

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Royall Tyler is the most recent translator of The Tale of Genji (Penguin, 2001). He lives in Australia.

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