Forgetting the past, forgetting the present
Subtitle: "foreword" and "Biography of the female immortal, Amnesia-grass," Kokon monowasure (1772)
By: by Takebe Ayatari ; introduction and translation by Lawrence E. Marceau
Contributors: Marceau, Lawrence Edward; Hibbett, Howard
Series: An episodic festschrift for Howard Hibbett -- 9; Episodic festschrift for Howard Hibbett -- 9.
Publisher: Highmoonoon
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Hollywood, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 22
Subjects: Haibun
Work titles: Kokon monowasure
Notes: 56 short humorous vignettes or parodies on the interest in Japanese memory-strengthing techniques current in the 1770s.

Translated from the Japanese.