The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Japanese Tale of Love and War by Eiji Yoshikawa

The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Japanese Tale of Love and War

Eiji Yoshikawa with Davinder L. Bhowmik (Contributor), Fuki Wooyenaka Uramatsu (Translator)

576 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

fiction classics historical adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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The Heike Story is a modern translation of a Japanese classic.Kyoto in the twelfth century was a magnificent city, but crime, disorder, and lust were rampant. The people were abused by the nobility, while armed Buddhist monks terrorized court and ...

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