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Excerpt from Chiushingura or the Loyal League, a Japanese Romance The poems in the appendix show the vein of Japanese ideas in this direction, but the essence of the original seems hardly to have been preserved; and the pieces are more curious in ingenuity of translation than valuable for intrinsic merit. 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.