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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). It has been translated into English at least five times. The first translation was by Arthur Lindsay Sadler ...
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 Tale of the Heike; Kokin Wakashu: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry; Tales of Ise: Lyrical Episodes from 10th Century Japan (Ariwara no Narihira) Okagami, the Great Mirror: Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027 and His Times : a Study and Translation) A Tale of Flowering Fortunes: Annals of Japan; Aristocratic Life. with William H ...
The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 0-86008-189-3. Yoshikawa, Eiji. (1956). The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Tale of Love and War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ASIN B0007BR0W8 (cloth). _____. (1981). The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Tale of Love and War. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing.
He was a member of the Taira clan (Heike) who fought in the Genpei War against the Minamoto (Genji). He is mostly known for his early death at the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani and his appearance in the epic The Tale of the Heike, in which he was killed by the remorseful warrior Kumagai Naozane. He is also the subject of the famous Noh play Atsumori.
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... is a 48-book extended version of the Heike Monogatari (The Tale of the Heike ...
The Tale of the Heike is the most famous of the sources from which we learn about this historical character, although many kabuki and bunraku plays reproduce events of the war as well. The central theme of the Heike story—and the mirrored theme of Taira no Tokuko's life story—is a demonstration of the Buddhist law of impermanence.
A Zenith book, published by Arrow Books Ltd., London, 1983. ISBN 0-600-20813-3. This work influenced the play Top Girls, in which Lady Nijō appears as a prominent character. Karen Brazell (Editor), Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays (Translations from the Asian Classics Series), 1998. ISBN 0-231-10873-7