Editorial Note

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An untagged text of Oku no hosomichi is available at the Japan Association of Literacy and Linguistic Computing (JALLC) website. We proofread this e-text against the printed text of Oku no hosomichi in Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei, vol. 46 (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1967). The e-text was then tagged with TEI-conformant SGML tags.

We divided the text into sections and added section titles according to the Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei (NKBT).

A percentage mark followed by a back slash (％＼) in the copy-text indicates that the preceding two or rarely three kana should be repeated with the first kana glottalized (i.e., with a dakuten); there are also rare cases where this repetition applies to a preceding kanji, as in 暮％＼.

The JALLC e-text is reproduced without change. Kanji in the e-text that were unavailable in the JIS code table are replaced with kana.

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Last revised May 21, 1999