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- ↑ Naito, Satoko (2021). "Anxieties of Authorship, Critique of Readership: Mishima Yukio's Modern Noh Play Genji kuyō". Japanese Language and Literature. 55 (2): 407–446. doi:10.5195/jll.2021.186. ISSN 1536-7827. JSTOR 27172812.
- ↑ Kim, Junghee (2018). "Mishima Yukio's Modern Noh Play Sotoba Komachi: Nietzsche's Influence and the Ideal Post-war Artist". Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies. 18 (2): 245–262. doi: 10.21866/esjeas.2018.18.2.006 . ISSN 2586-0380.
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