Burial in the Clouds

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First English-language edition published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd., with editorial offices at 364 Innovation Drive, North Clarendon, Vermont 05759 U.S.A.

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English translation © 2006 Teruyo Shimizu

“KUMO NO BOHYO” by Hiroyuki Agawa

Copyright © Hiroyuki Agawa 1956.

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Original Japanese edition published by Shinchosha Co.

This English-language edition published by arrangement with Shinchosha Co.,

Tokyo, in care of the Tuttle-Mori Agency, Inc., Tokyo.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Agawa, Hiroyuki, 1920-

[Kumo no bohyo. English]

Burial in the clouds / Hiroyuki Agawa; translated by Teruyo Shimizu.—1st ed. p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8048-3759-0

ISBN-10: 0-8048-3759-7 (pbk.)

I. Shimizu, Teruyo, 1967- II. Title.

PL845.G3K713 2006

895.6’35—dc22

2006015263

ISBN-10: 0-8048-3759-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-8048-3759-0

ISBN: 978-1-4629-1418-0 (ebook)

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