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The Tales of the Heike 1st Edition by Burton Watson, Haruo Shirane ISBN 9780231510837 0231510837

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Author(s): Burton Watson, Haruo Shirane
ISBN(s): 9780231138024, 0231138024
Edition: Abridged
File Details: PDF, 4.31 MB
Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0231510837
ISBN 13: 9780231510837
Author: Burton Watson, Haruo Shirane

The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, it features a cast of vivid characters and chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike and changed the course of Japanese history. The Tales of the Heike focuses on the lives of both the samurai warriors who fought for two powerful twelfth-century Japanese clans-the Heike (Taira) and the Genji (Minamoto)-and the women with whom they were intimately connected. The Tales of the Heike provides a dramatic window onto the emerging world of the medieval samurai and recounts in absorbing detail the chaos of the battlefield, the intrigue of the imperial court, and the gradual loss of a courtly tradition. The book is also highly religious and Buddhist in its orientation, taking up such issues as impermanence, karmic retribution, attachment, and renunciation, which dominated the Japanese imagination in the medieval period. In this new, abridged translation, Burton Watson offers a gripping rendering of the work’s most memorable episodes. Particular to this translation are the introduction by Haruo Shirane, the woodblock illustrations, a glossary of characters, and an extended bibliography.
 
The Tales of the Heike 1st Edition Table of contents:

Book One

The Bells of Gion Monastery

Night Attack at Courtiers’ Hall

The Sea Bass

Page-Boy Cuts

Kiyomori’s Flowering Fortunes

Giō

Book Two

The Admonition

Signal Fires

The Death of the Senior Counselor

Yasuyori’s Prayer

Book Three

The Pardon

The Foot-Drumming

Ariō

The Death of Shunkan

Book Four

The Battle at the Bridge

Book Five

The Burning of Nara

Book Six

The Death of Kiyomori

Book Seven

Sanemori

Tadanori Leaves the Capital

The Flight from Fukuhara

Book Eight

Book Nine

The Death of Lord Kiso

The Old Horse

The Attack from the Cliff

The Death of Tadanori

The Capture of Shigehira

The Death of Atsumori

Book Ten

Regarding the Precepts

Senju-no-mae

Yokobue

Koremori Becomes a Monk

Koremori Drowns Himself

Book Eleven

The Death of Tsuginobu

Nasu no Yoichi

The Lost Bow

The Cockfights and the Battle of Dan-no-ura

Far-Flying Arrows

The Drowning of the Former Emperor

Book Twelve

The Execution of Rokudai

The Initiates’ Book

The Imperial Lady Becomes a Nun

The Move to Ōhara

The Retired Emperor Visits Ōhara

The Six Paths of Existence

The Death of the Imperial Lady

Glossary of Characters

Bibliography

Series List

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