European purposes shall awake once more, whether in Gaelic or in English,
under the slope of Slieve-na-mon or Croagh Patrick ancient memories; for
this form has no need of scenery that runs away with money nor of a
theatre-building. Yet I know that I only amuse myself with a fancy; for
though my writings if they be sea-worthy must put to sea, I cannot tell
where they may be carried by the wind. Are not the fairy-stories of Oscar
Wilde, which were written for Mr. Ricketts and Mr. Shannon and for a few
ladies, very popular in Arabia?

W. B. Yeats, April 1916.




NISHIKIGI




NISHIKIGI, A PLAY IN TWO ACTS BY MOTOKIYO.


PERSONS OF THE PLAY


THE WAKI A priest

THE SHITE, OR HERO Ghost of the lover

TSURE Ghost of the woman; they have both been long