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Title: Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House)
Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 (of 2)

Author: James S. De Benneville

Release Date: November 28, 2006 [EBook #19945]

Language: English

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| TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES |
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| 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. Shigenari/Shigenari, Uesugi/Uesugi). |
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| The letter o with a macron is represented as o[u]. |
| The letter u with a macron is represented as u[u]. |
| The letter e with a macron is represented as e[e]. |
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| Kanji and hiragana characters in the original book are |
| shown enclosed in square brackets: for example, [sara]. |
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| The italicisation of Japanese words has been standardised. |
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| Hyphenation and capitalisation has been standardised. |
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| Punctuation and obvious printer's errors have been |
| corrected. For a complete list, please see the bottom |
| of this document. |
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[Illustration: EDO WAN (TOKYO BAY)]

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