From the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji , a groundbreaking rendering of Japan's great martial epic The 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.
Penguin Books The tale of the heike, paperback/royall tyler
