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"With a reflection on the fleeting nature of power and glory begins The Tale of the Heike, an epic from twelfth-century Japan. Comparable in stature to The Tale of Genji, The Tale of the Heike narrates with wit, energy, and compassion the stories of such unforgettable characters as the ruthless...

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Other Authors: Tyler, Royall
Format: Book
Language:English
Japanese
Published: New York : Viking, 2012.
Subjects:
Taira family > Fiction.
Japan > History > Gempei Wars, 1180-1185 > Fiction.
ISBN:9780670025138
0670025135
Table of Contents:
  • Book One. The Jetavana Temple
  • The night attack in the palace
  • The sea bass
  • The Rokuhara boys
  • One man's glory
  • Giō
  • Empress to two sovereigns
  • The clash over the name plaques
  • The burning of Kiyomizudera
  • The heir apprant names
  • The collision with the regent
  • Shichi-no-tani
  • The fight over Ugawa
  • The vows
  • The palanquins of the Gods
  • The burning of the palace.
  • Book Two. The exile of the abbot
  • The adept yixing
  • The execution of Saikō
  • The lesser remonstrance
  • The plea to Narichika
  • The akoya pine
  • The death of Narichika
  • Tokudaiji Sanesada's pilgrimage to Itsukushima
  • The battle with the rank-and-file monks
  • The ruin of Mount Hiei
  • Zenkōji destroyed by fire
  • Yasuyori's prayer
  • Stupas cast into the sea
  • Su Wu.
  • Book Three. The pardon
  • Stamping in frenzy
  • The imperial birth
  • The roster of great lords
  • The rebuilding of the great pagoda
  • Raigō
  • Naritsune's return
  • Ariō
  • The death of Shunkan
  • The whirlwind
  • The consult of not the Chinese physician
  • The sword of mourning
  • The lanterns
  • Gold to China
  • The confrontation with Jōken
  • The ministers banished
  • Yukitaka
  • The exile of the cloistered emperor
  • The Seinan detached palace.
  • Book Four. The pilgrimage to Itsukushima
  • The return
  • The roster of Genji
  • The weasels
  • Nobutsura
  • Kiō
  • The appeal to Mount Hiei
  • The appeal to Nara
  • The interminable debate
  • The roster of fighting monks
  • The battle on the bridge
  • The death of the prince
  • The prince's son leaves the world
  • Tōjō
  • The nightbird
  • The burning of Miidera.
  • Book Five. The capital moved to Fukuhara
  • Moon viewing
  • Spirit mischief
  • The courier
  • The roster of imperial foes
  • The Xianyang palace
  • Mongaku's exile
  • The Fukuhara decree
  • The Fuji River
  • The Gosechi dances
  • The return to the old capital
  • The burning of Nara.
  • Book Six. The death of retired Emperor Takakura
  • Autumn leaves
  • Aoi kogō
  • The circular letter
  • The couriers
  • The death of Kiyomori
  • Sutra Island
  • Jishinbō
  • The Gion Consort
  • A roar from the sky
  • The battle beside the Yokota River.
  • Book Seven. Shimizu no Kanja
  • The northern campaign
  • The pilgrimace to Chikubushima
  • The battle at Hiuchi
  • A prayer to Hiuchi
  • A prayer to Hachiman
  • The rout down Kurikara ravine
  • The battle at Shinohara
  • Sanemori
  • Genbō
  • Yoshinaka's letter to Mount Hei
  • The reply
  • The Heike appeal to Mount Hiei
  • The emperor's flight from the capital
  • Koremori's flight from the capital
  • The honor of the emperor's presence
  • Tadanori's flight from the capital
  • Tsunemasa's filght from the capital
  • Seizan
  • The Heike flight from the capital
  • The flight from Fukuhara.
  • Book Eight. The imperial journey to Mount Hiei
  • Natora
  • The reel of thread
  • The flight from Dazaifu
  • His cloistered eminence appoints a supreme commander
  • Nekoma
  • The battle at Mizushima
  • The death of Seno-o
  • Muroyama
  • The Tsuzumi lieutenant
  • The battle at Hōjūji.
  • Book Nine. ikezuki
  • First up the Uji river
  • The battle beside the river
  • The death of Kiso
  • The execution of Higuchi
  • Six clashed
  • The roster of forces ar Mikusa
  • The battle of Mikusa
  • The old horse
  • First or second to engage the foe
  • The double attack
  • The charge down Hiyodori Ravine
  • The death of Moritoshi
  • The death of Tadanori
  • Shigehira taken alive
  • The death of Atsumori
  • The death of Tomoskira
  • Flight
  • Kozaishō drowns.
  • Book Ten. The parade of heads
  • The gentlewoman at the palace
  • Go-Shirakawa's decree to Yashima
  • The Heike reply
  • The precepts
  • Down the Tōkaidō
  • Senju-no-mae
  • Yokobue
  • Mount Kōya
  • Koremori renounces the world
  • The pilgrimade to Kumano
  • Koremori drowns
  • The three-day Heike.

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