About the Author

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Matsuoka Shinpei is professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He has published numerous works on medieval Japanese literature and culture. Janet Goff (1946-2022) was a scholar and devotee of noh and the author of Noh Drama and The Tale of the Genji: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays (1991). Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.