The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Japanese Tale of Love and War by Eiji Yoshikawa

The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Japanese Tale of Love and War

Eiji Yoshikawa with Fuki Wooyenaka Uramatsu (Translator), Davinder L. Bhowmik (Contributor)

576 pages first pub 1956 (editions)

fiction classics historical adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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The Heike Story is a modern translation of a Japanese classic.Kyoto in the twelfth century was a magnificent city, but crime, disorder, and lust were rampant. The people were abused by the nobility, while armed Buddhist monks terrorized court and ...

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