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008 120502s2006 nyuab b 000 1 eng
010 _a 2005034245
020 _a0231138024 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _a0231510837 (electronic)
020 _a9780231138024
082 0 0 _a895.6/32
_222
130 0 _aHeike monogatari.
_lEnglish.
_kSelections.
245 1 4 _aThe tales of the Heike /
_ctranslated by Burton Watson ; edited, with an introduction, by Haruo Shirane.
260 _aNew York :
_bColumbia University Press,
_cc2006.
300 _avii, 216 p. :
_bill., map ;
_c24 cm.
440 0 _aTranslations from the Asian classics
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [195]-208).
500 _aTranslated from the Japanese.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- book 1: The bells of Gion Monastery ; Night attack at Courtiers' Hall ; The sea bass ; Page-boy cuts ; Kiyomori's flowering fortunes ; Giō -- book 2: The admonition ; Signal fires ; The death of the senior counselor ; Yasuyori's prayer -- book 3: The pardon ; The foot-drumming ; Ariō ; 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 Ōhara ; The retired emperor visits Ōhara ; The six paths of existence ; The death of the imperial lady -- Glossary of characters.
600 3 0 _aTaira family
_vFiction.
651 0 _aJapan
_xHistory
_yGempei Wars, 1180-1185
_vFiction.
700 1 _aWatson, Burton,
_d1925-
700 1 _aShirane, Haruo,
_d1951-
999 _c13428
_d13428
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