Heike monogatari
About this book
In late 12th Century Japan, one noble house (the Heike, or Taira, clan) attempts to sieze the throne, only to be defeated by another (the Minamoto clan).
This fictionalized oral history of the Genpei war became the foundation myth of the Kamakura shogunate. It stands as Japan's equivalent to the Illiad, or the Morte d'Arthur.
Subjects
- fiction
- fiction, family life
- fiction - general
- fiction / general
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, war & military
- general
- heike monogatari
- historical fiction
- history
- indexes
- in literature
- japan, fiction
- literature and the war
- modern fiction
- new york times reviewed
- taira family