Acknowledgments
The poems that begin each chapter are selected from
I like the translation
The Little Treasury of One Hundred People,
One Poem Each
Compiled by Fujiwara no Sadaie (1162-1241)
Translated by Tom Galt
Copyright 1982 Princeton University Press
Princeton, New Jersey
The prayers in chapters 11, 12 and 16 are modeled after
prayers in
Norito: A New Translation
of the Ancient Japanese Ritual Prayers
by Donald L. Philippi
The Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics
Kokugakuin University, Tokyo, 1959