First edition

CERTAIN NOBLE PLAYS OF JAPAN: | FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS OF ERNEST | FENOLLOSA, CHOSEN AND FINISHED | BY EZRA POUND, WITH AN INTRODUC- | TION BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS. | | THE CUALA PRESS | CHURCHTOWN | DUNDRUM | MCMXVI

2 blank leaves, 2 leaves, 1 blank leaf, xviii, pp., 1 leaf, 48, [2] pp., 1 leaf, 2 blank leaves. 21.4 x 14.8 cm. Grey paper boards printed in black on front cover, with tan linen back; grey end-papers; edges untrimmed.

Published 16 September 1916 at 11s. Colophon (verso of first leaf): Three hundred and fifty copies of this book have been printed. This copy is No. [number written in] Colophon (page [51]): Here ends ‘Certain Noble Plays of Japan:’ ... Printed and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, in the County of Dublin, Ireland. Finished on the twentieth day of July, in the year of the Sinn Fein rising, nineteen hundred and sixteen. [Both colophons and the four half-title-leaves are printed in red, the rest of the book in black.]

Contents: Introduction, by W. B. Yeats—Nishikigi [by Motokiyo|—Hagoromo—Kumasaka [by Ujinobu]—Kagekiyo [by Motokiyo]—Notes [to Kagekiyo, and acknowledgment, signed: Ezra Pound]

Note: These plays, without the introduction by W. B. Yeats, were reprinted in ‘Noh’ or Accomplishment—A13, which was itself reprinted with the Yeats introduction in 1959 by New Directions in New York as The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan, by Ezra Pound and Ernest Fenollosa (New Directions Paperbook P.79).