Acknowledgments

The Publisher wishes to thank all of those whose kind assistance made possible the gathering of material for this collection. In addition to the editors, authors and translators listed in the preceding pages, the original Japanese publishers of some of the contents, and the owners who gave permission to reproduce artworks, he would mention especially: William R. B. Acker, The Asia Foundation, Sidney Cardozo, The East Asiatic Library (Columbia University), Mrs. Frances Gauntlett, Mrs. Eloise Grilli, Ryuchi Hamaguchi, Kinichi Ishikawa, The Japan P.E.N. Club, The Japan Society, Shinzo Kaji, Donald Keene, Nobutane Kiuchi, Horyu Komiya, Eugene Langston, Sherry Mangan, Miss Yoko Matsuoka, Makato Nakao, Tetsuo Okumura, Douglas Overton, David Penn, Bruce Rogers, Miss Shio Sakanishi, Glenn W. Shaw, Tatsume Shimada, The Shochiku Company, Mosaburo Suzuki, Toshio Takahashi, Seizo Tanouchi, Charles E. Tuttle, Meredith Weatherby, William P. Woodard, Yukio Yashiro and Kenichi Yoshida. Edward Seidensticker’s adaptation of Tanizaki’s “In Praise of Shadows” first appeared in The Japan Quarterly and his translation of Dazai’s “Of Women” in Encounter.