THE
NŌ PLAYS
OF JAPAN
_TRANSLATIONS BY ARTHUR WALEY_
A HUNDRED AND SEVENTY CHINESE POEMS
“No better translations have appeared of Chinese poetry. He
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suggestion, its perfect humanity.”
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THE NŌ PLAYS OF
JAPAN
BY
ARTHUR WALEY
NEW YORK
ALFRED · A · KNOPF
1922
COPYRIGHT, 1922
BY ARTHUR WALEY
_Published March, 1922_
_Set up and printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y._
_Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York, N. Y._
_Bound by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass._
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
DŌAMI
CONTENTS
PAGE
KEY TO PLANS 12, 14
PLANS 13, 15
INTRODUCTION 17-29
NOTE ON BUDDHISM 30-32
CHAPTER I
ATSUMORI 36-44
IKUTA 45-50
TSUNEMASA 51-56