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TALES OF THE HEIKE
{TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS}
BURTON WATSON / HARUO SHIRANE

UNIVERSITY PRESSES OF CALIFORNIA, COLUMBIA AND PRI (JUN 2006)
HARDBACK, 232 pages, 24 figures, 3 maps, 229 x 152 mm.
Prod. # 9780231138024 (British edition)
Category: Literary Criticism

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TALES OF THE HEIKE, ABRIDGED American paperback edition

Written in the mid-thirteenth century, this book chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike clan and changed the course of Japanese history. It depicts the emerging world of the medieval samurai.

Written in the mid-thirteenth century, this book chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike clan and changed the course of Japanese history. It depicts the emerging world of the medieval samurai. ... from the American paperback edition

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