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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 |
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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. momme/momme; murashite/murashite; |
| Kuramae/Kuramae). |
| |
| The letter o with a macron is represented as o[u]. |
| The letter u with a macron is represented as u[u]. |
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| Kanji characters in the original book are shown |
| enclosed in square brackets: for example, [kami]. |
| |
| The italicisation of Japanese words has been standardised. |
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| Punctuation and obvious printer's errors have been |
| corrected. |
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| Hyphenation and capitalisation has been standardised. |
| |
| The symbol referred to in footnote 44, an X with a bar |
| across the top, has been represented as [=X]. |
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| Superscript numbers in