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Certain Noble Plays of Japan - From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa by Ezra Pound
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TOMO
Do you know where the exile lives?

VILLAGER
What exile is it you want?

TOMO
Akushichi-bioye Kagekiyo, a noble of Heike's party.

VILLAGER
Did you not pass an old man under the edge of the mountain, as you were
coming that way?

TOMO
A blind beggar in a thatched cottage.

VILLAGER
That fellow was Kagekiyo. What ails the lady? she shivers.

TOMO
A question you might well ask. She is the exile's daughter. She wanted to
see her father once more, and so came hither to seek him. Will you take
us to Kagekiyo?

VILLAGER
Bless my soul! Kagekiyo's daughter. Come, come, never mind, young miss.
Now I will tell you, Kagekiyo went blind in both eyes, and so he shaved
his crown and called himself 'The Blind man of Hinga.' He begs a bit from
the passers, and the likes of us keep him; he'd be ashamed to tell you
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