LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.

       of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan

       with editorial offices at

       Osaki Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0032

      ©1966 by Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc.

       All rights reserved

      First Tuttle edition, 1966

       First Tuttle paperback edition, 1990

       Third printing, 1993

      LCC Card No. 66-15849

       ISBN: 978-1-4629-0367-2 (ebook)

       Printed in Japan

      WITH RESPECT AND LOVE AND DEEPEST GRATITUDE

       I DEDICATE THESE SACRED MEMORIES

      TO

      MY TWO MOTHERS

      WHOSE LIVES AND ENVIRONMENTS WERE FAR APART,

       YET WHOSE HEARTS MET IN MINE

      ACKNOWLEDGMENT

       TO

       NANCY VIRGINIA AUSTEN

      Whose pleasant friendship, energetic spirit, and practical knowledge encouraged me to believe that a little Etsu-bo, with a heart full of love for old Japan, could gather the falling fragments of samurai spirit and weave them into a fragrant chain for the readers of to-day.

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