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From the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji, a groundbreaking rendering of Japan’s great martial epic
The fourteenth-century Tale of the Heike is Japan’s Iliada moving depiction of the late twelfth-century wars between the Heike and Genji clans. No work has had a greater impact on later Japanese literature, theater, music, film, and mangaindeed on the Japanese people’s sense of their own past. It has also been a major source for medieval-Japan-based fantasy in English. With woodcuts by nineteenth-century artist Teisai Hokuba, a major student of the great Hokusai, Royall Tyler’s stunning presentation of this touchstone of Japanese culture recreates the oral epic as it was actually performed and conveys the rich and vigorous language of the original.
The fourteenth-century Tale of the Heike is Japan’s Iliada moving depiction of the late twelfth-century wars between the Heike and Genji clans. No work has had a greater impact on later Japanese literature, theater, music, film, and mangaindeed on the Japanese people’s sense of their own past. It has also been a major source for medieval-Japan-based fantasy in English. With woodcuts by nineteenth-century artist Teisai Hokuba, a major student of the great Hokusai, Royall Tyler’s stunning presentation of this touchstone of Japanese culture recreates the oral epic as it was actually performed and conveys the rich and vigorous language of the original.
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- Title The Tale of the Heike
- Author Royall Tyler (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 784
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group
- Date 2014-03-25
- Features Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143107262 / 0143107267
- Weight 2 lbs (0.91 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.8 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 4.57 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects History, Japan
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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“This modern translation of the Japanese medieval classic tracing the rise and fall of the Taira (Heike) clan reads like the Iliad filtered through Akira Kurosawa, with battlefield panoramas and personal tragedies captured in an exquisitely cinematic narrative…Following his noteworthy translation of The Tale of Genji, Tyler offers accessible language while observing literary tradition in names and format. To help both old hands and newcomers navigate the vibrant yet sometimes arduous masterpiece, he provides an introduction, character list, maps, geneaologies, chronologies, footnotes, and glorious 19th-century illustrations.” --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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- New York Times Book Review, 05/11/2014, Page 36
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