The tales of the Heike/
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Japanese |
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New York:
Columbia University Press,
c2006
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| Series: | Translations from the Asian classics
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- book 1: The bells of Gion Monastery ; Night attack at Courtiers' Hall ; The sea bass ; Page-boy cuts ; Kiyomori's flowering fortunes ; Gio
- book 2: The admonition ; Signal fires ; The death of the senior counselor ; Yasuyori's prayer
- book 3: The pardon ; The foot-drumming ; Ario ; The death of Shunkan
- book 4: The battle at the bridge
- book 5: The burning of Nara
- book 6: The death of Kiyomori
- book 7: Sanemori ; Tadanori leaves the capital ; The flight from Fukuhara
- book 8 [summary]
- book 9: 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 10: Regarding the precepts ; Senju-no-mae ; Yokobue ; Koremori becomes a monk ; Koremori drowns himself
- book 11: 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 12: The execution of Rokudai
- The initiates' book: The imperial lady becomes a nun ; The move to Ohara ; The retired emperor visits Ohara ; The six paths of existence ; The death of the imperial lady
- Glossary of characters.