The Daimio's Head

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Excerpt from The Daimio's Head: And Other Masques The Daimios Head Characters Buchi, A Badger-Man, a good goblin. ShiSu Gentlemen tea-drinkers. ySu Iancing Girls. Punakoshi, a young Samurai. OToyo San, a Princess. Oishi I Counsellors of the Daimio of Sendai. Matsudaira Mutsa No Kami, Daimio of Sendai. An Attendant. A Fox Woman, a wicked goblin. Hokusai, an Artist. His pupil. A Magistrate. Sn?Sest t-Pl -The Abbot of the Temple. The stage is set with a great screen representing the sacred mountain, paper screens are shifted to represent the various places in which the action occurs. Before the opening of the play, a line of screens extends across the front of the stage. When the audience is seated, a gong is struck and the Director of the Theater parts the center screens, and stepping forward addresses the audience. He is dressed in the costume which he will wear as Buchi in the play and carries the false head representing a badger-goblin under his arm. Thk Director Most honorable people, I salute you! I have made a play. It is a play of Old Japan. It is a play of filial piety and just revenge. It will instruct the young in the courtesy due to an honorable enemy. 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.