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Strange Games and Enchanted Science: The Mystery of Kokkuri

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2007

Michael Dylan Foster
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mdfoster@ucr.edu Assistant Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside
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