The Tale of the Heike
From the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji, a groundbreaking rendering of Japan's great martial epicThe fourteenth-century Tale of the Heike is Japan's Iliad-a 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 manga-indeed 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 cult…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-14-310726-2
- EAN: 9780143107262
- Produktnummer: 15152844
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 784 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.4 cm x D5.0 cm 909 g
- Abbildungen: black & white illustrations, maps
- Gewicht: 909
Über den Autor
Royall Tyler, an American, is retired from the Australian National University where he taught Japanese language and literature for many years. He has a B.A. from Harvard University and a PhD. from Columbia University and has taught at Harvard, Stanford and the University of Wisconsin.
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