The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari, by

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Title: The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)

Author: James S. De Benneville

Release Date: November 28, 2006 [EBook #19944]

Language: English

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+------------------------------------------------------------+ | TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES | | | | Accents and diacritical marks have generally been | | standardised. Where there is a single instance of a word | | with an accent, and one without, no change has been made | | to the original. (e.g. momme/mommé; murashite/murashité; | | Kuramae/Kuramaé). | | | | The letter o with a macron is represented as o[u]. | | The letter u with a macron is represented as u[u]. | | | | Kanji characters in the original book are shown | | enclosed in square brackets: for example, [kami]. | | | | The italicisation of Japanese words has been standardised. | | | | Punctuation and obvious printer's errors have been | | corrected. | | | | Hyphenation and capitalisation has been standardised. | | | | The symbol referred to in footnote 44, an X with a bar | | across the top, has

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