{"product_id":"9780143107262-tale-of-the-heike","title":"The Tale of the Heike","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePresents a masterpiece of world literature and the progenitor of all samurai stories. Legendary for its magnificent and vivid set battle scenes, this book is filled with intimate human dramas and emotions, contemplating Buddhist themes of suffering and separation, as well as universal insights into love, loss and loyalty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tale of the Heike\u003c\/i\u003e is Japan's great martial epic: a masterpiece of world literature and the progenitor of all samurai stories. This major and groundbreaking new Penguin translation is by Royall Tyler, acclaimed translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Genji\u003c\/i\u003e.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst assembled from scattered oral poems in the early fourteenth century, \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of the Heike\u003c\/i\u003e is Japan's \u003ci\u003eIliad \u003c\/i\u003e- a grand-scale depiction of the wars between the Heike and Genji clans. Legendary for its magnificent and vivid set battle scenes, it is also a work filled with intimate human dramas and emotions, contemplating Buddhist themes of suffering and separation, as well as universal insights into love, loss and loyalty. The narrative moves back and forth between the two great warring clans, between aristocratic society and street life, adults and children, great crowds and introspection. No Japanese work has had a greater impact on subsequent literature, theatre, music and films, or on Japan's sense of its own past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoyall Tyler's new translation is the first to capture the way \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of the Heike\u003c\/i\u003e was originally performed. It re-creates the work in its full operatic form, with speech, poetry, blank verse and song that convey its character as an oral epic in a way not seen before, fully embracing the rich and vigorous language of the original texts. Beautifully illustrated with fifty-five woodcuts from the nineteenth-century artistic master, Katsushika Hokusai, and bolstered with maps, character guides, genealogies and rich annotation, this is a landmark edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoyall Tyler taught Japanese language and literature for many years at the Australian National University. 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. His translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Genji\u003c\/i\u003e was acclaimed by publications such as \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40942948155489,"sku":"9780143107262","price":21.73,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32352042.jpg?v=1737186463","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780143107262-tale-of-the-heike","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}