The tales of the Heike [Elektronisk resurs] / translated by Burton Watson ; edited, with an introduction, by Haruo Shirane.

• Introduction -- 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.

Ämnesord

Japan  -- History -- Gempei Wars, 1180-1185 -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Genre

Electronic books.  (local)

Personnamn

Taira family -- Fiction.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Hxj.07=e Skönlitteratur: japanska: folkdiktning: översättningar till: engelska

Hxj.07=e Skönlitteratur: japanska: folkdiktning: översättningar till: engelska

Klassifikation

PL790 (LCC)

895.632 (DDC)

Hxj.07=e/DR (kssb/7)

Hxj.07=e (kssb/7)