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  Bibliography

  A brief summary of Sado's tourist highlights can be found in most current guidebooks on Japan, but no comprehensive account of its history and culture has been published in English. I have gleaned useful information and insights from the following works:

  - Nichiren The Buddhist Prophet by Masaharu Anesaki, Harvard University Press (1916)

  - Nichiren: Selected Writings, ed. Laurel Rasplica Rodd, University of Hawaii Press (1980)

  - The Major Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, pub. by the Nichiren Shoshu International Center (1979)

  - Japanese Mythology by Juliet Piggott, Hamlyn (1969)

  - Japanese Folk Tales by Kunio Yanagita, published by Kadokawa, Tokyo (1960)

  - The Fox and Badger in Japanese Superstition and The Tengu by M. W. de Visser, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. 36 (1908)

  - The Catalpa Bow by Carmen Blacker, George Allen & Unwin Ltd (1975)

  - Sado Island by Robert Burnett Hall, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Vol. 16 (1931)

  - The No Plays of Japan by Arthur Waley, George Allen & Unwin Ltd (1921)

  - Gold and Silver in Japan by Robert Y. Grant, Report No. 128, U. S. Army GHQ Natural Resources Section (1950)

  - Important Trees of Japan, Report No. 119, U. S. Army GHQ Natural Resources Section (1949)

  - Herpetology in Japan by L. Stejneger, Smithsonian Institute (1907)

  - Pillow of Grass by Nancy Phelan, MacMillan & Co (1969)

  - Sado No Mujina No Hanashi by Shunosuke Yamamoto, pub. Sado Kyodo Bunka no kai (1988)

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  Angus Waycott is an author, travel writer and narrator. He has worked for several years in Japan as a copywriter, scriptwriter and the voice of TV news broadcasts, commercials and award-winning documentaries.