| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The tales of the Heike // translated by Burton Watson ; edited, with an introduction, by Haruo Shirane. |
| other author: |
Watson, Burton, |
| Published: |
New York :Columbia University Press, : c2006., |
| Description: |
vii, 216 p. :ill., map ;24 cm. |
| Notes: |
Translated from the Japanese. |
| Series: |
Translations from the Asian classics |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Introduction -- book 1: The bells of Gion Monastery ; Night attack at Courtiers' Hall ; The sea bass ; Page-boy cuts ; Kiyomori's flowering fortunes ; Gi{macr}o -- book 2: The admonition ; Signal fires ; The death of the senior counselor ; Yasuyori's prayer -- book 3: The pardon ; The foot-drumming ; Ari{macr}o ; 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 {macr}Ohara ; The retired emperor visits {macr}Ohara ; The six paths of existence ; The death of the imperial lady -- Glossary of characters. |
| Subject: |
Japan - History - Gempei Wars, 1180-1185 - |
| Online resource: |
http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/COLB0001201.html |
| ISBN: |
0231138024 (cloth : alk. paper) |