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Detail of a screen painting depicting scenes from The Tales of Heike. The Tale of the Heike (平家物語, Heike Monogatari) is an epic account compiled prior to 1330 of the struggle between the Taira clan and Minamoto clan for control of Japan at the end of the 12th century in the Genpei War (1180–1185).
These kinds of expansions led to the text being treated increasingly as an independent work from the rest of the Tale, such as in the Yashiro-bon manuscript (屋代本平家物語 Yashiro-bon Heike Monogatari), which gives Tsuruginomaki its own volume: most texts of the Tale include the shorter chapter, with the title "Swords" (剣 Tsurugi), in ...
The anime The Heike Story is a work that has the potential to become a new Japanese treasure." [13] Following the conclusion of its streaming release, The Heike Story was named one of the best series of 2021 by Anime News Network, [14] [15] [16] Paste Magazine, [17] Comic Book Resources, [18] /Film, [19] the editorial staff of Crunchyroll, [20 ...
Royall Tyler (born 1936 in London, England) is a scholar, writer, and translator of Japanese literature.Major works include English translations of The Tale of the Heike (平家物語, Heike Monogatari) which won the 2012 Lois Roth Award, and The Tale of Genji (源氏物語, Genji Monogatari) which received the Japan-US Friendship Commission Translation Prize in 2001.
The last three chapters of the 12th book of the Heike Monogatari deal with his story. Emperor Rokujo, child emperor who was the son of Emperor Nijo. He took the throne at the age of two. He soon abdicated and the Taira's choice, Emperor Takakura, took his place.
His publications included an English translation of Hōjōki and Heike Monogatari under the title of The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike (1928; 1972); The Art of Flower Arrangement in Japan (1933); Cha-No-Yu: The Japanese Tea Ceremony (1933; 1962); Maker of Modern Japan: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1937); an English translation of ...
The 10th-century Japanese narrative, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Taketori Monogatari), can be considered an early example of proto-science fiction. The protagonist of the story, Kaguya-hime, is a princess from the Moon who is sent to Earth for safety during a celestial war, and is found and raised by a bamboo cutter.
Shin Heike Monogatari (新平家物語, lit. "New Tale of the Heike") may refer to: Shin Heike Monogatari, a novel by Eiji Yoshikawa, translated into English as "The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Tale of Love and War" Shin Heike Monogatari, a 1955 film based on the novel