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Funding for research on this work was provided by a dissertation grant from the
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the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Yosano Akiko, "The Day When Mountains Move" (p. 1 ), Atsumi Ikuko, "Different
Dimensions" (p. 33 ), and Nishi Junko, "Revolution" (p. 135 ) reprinted from Kenneth Rexroth
and Ikuko Atsumi, editors, Women Poets of Japan. Copyright © 1977
by Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi. Reprinted by permission of New Direc-
tions Publishing Corporation.
"The Inn of the Dancing Snow," translation of Sata Ineko's "Yuki no mau yado,"
first appeared in Occident ( Berkeley) ( Winter 1981). Translated with author's per-
mission. Reprinted by permission.

"The End of Summer" (Kurahashi Yumiko's "Natsu no owari") translated with
author's permission.

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