Tale of the Heike
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- Japanese: 平家物語 (Heike monogatari)
The Tale of the Heike, or Heike monogatari, is among the most famous of the gunki monogatari epic "war tales." Developed out of oral traditions, and in particular the storytelling tradition of the traveling biwa hôshi, the Tale relates a dramatized, fictionalized, account of the fall of the Taira clan in the late 12th century, with much of the text describing the events of the Genpei War.
References
- Helen McCullough trans., The Tale of the Heike, Stanford University Press (1990), 6-7.