The Nō, Japan's first great dramatic form, was fully developed by two great performers, Kannami (1333–1384) and his son Zeami (1363–1443), in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the heart of the Muromachi period. The Nō remained one of Japan's primary dramatic forms, strongly influencing all later forms of Japanese drama. The texts of the Nō plays, as a new genre of literature, deeply influenced Japan's subsequent literature.

John Embree had less than two decades in which to work. Yet within that time he gained both some public name and the lasting regard of his fellow professionals. One of the most competent contemporary observers of social life and of the Far East, he was also one of the most versatile. He bridged anthropology and Far Eastern studies; at the time of his death he was a specialist on two areas of Asia; and as an anthropologist he was both scholar and actor in public affairs. The historians of his fields will no doubt remember him primarily for these accomplishments. His contemporaries, however, will recall him as readily for his personal attainments. Of sensitive moral fibre, he was by character and conviction animated by an extraordinary and classic sense of pity. This quality of course won him the respect and admiration of his colleagues. It also opened to him the hearts of those less fortunate than himself, and of the people among whom he worked. In the post-war years he was still remembered with neighborly affection and with pride as in a native son by the people of Suye Mura. In southeast Asia, though his situation was often less conducive to easy personal relationships, he acquired by his deep sympathy a host of devoted friends.

Materials at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Of the thousands of fifth to tenth century documents which came from a temple grotto at Tun-huang the better materials are to be found in the Collection Pelliot in Paris. This contains documents about half in Chinese, and the rest in Tibetan, Sogdian, and the Kucha, Khotan and Uighur languages. Access to them is to be had in the manuscript room of the Bibliothèque Nationale where Madame Guignard is in charge of the Oriental materials. There are two catalogues of the rolls; both are unique copies in longhand. The numbers mentioned below refer to the actual numbers on the rolls according to which they are arranged in storage and may be requested by readers.

No Study of the history of the Japanese socialist movement may be made without reference to the work and thought of Sen Katayama (1859–1933). Pioneer socialist, publisher of the first successful Japanese labor newspaper, and representative of Japanese socialism in the camps of the international movement, Katayama's career is a veritable mirror of the Japanese socialist movement.

On the Party. By Liu Shao-ch'i. Second Edition. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1950. 206 p.