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Excerpt from Primitive and Mediaeval Japanese Texts: Transliterated Into Roman With Introductions, Notes and Glossaries IN a few of the earlier lays the lines are not properly indented. In one or two cases the category is wrongly printed as part of the dai - as under Lay 1. In a very few instances a capital letter is mistakenly used - thus Tsuma for tsuma. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.