Tales of the Heike

Zusammenfassung Written in the mid-thirteenth century, this book chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike clan and changed the course of Japanese history. It depicts the emerging world of the medieval samurai.

Product details

• Authors: Haruo Shirane, Haruo (Editor Shirane, Shirane Haruo, Burton Watson, Burton Shirane Watson
• Assisted by: Haruo Shirane (Editor), Haruo (Editor Shirane (Editor), Shirane Haruo (Editor), Burton Watson (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2006
• EAN: 9780231138024
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13802-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from the Asian Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Japanese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary essays, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval