Lovable Losers : The Heike in Action and Memory / edited by Mikael S. Adolphson and Anne Commons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adolphson, Mikael S., 1961- editor.

Commons, Anne, editor.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taira family.

Taira family--In literature.

Heike monogatari.

Japan--History--Heian period, 794-1185.

Japan.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 284 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2015]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Blurring the lines: repositioning the Taira / Mikael S. Adolphson and Anne Commons

Fukuhara: Kiyomori's lost capital / Mikael S. Adolphson

Heike trade and the meaning of wealth / Charlotte von Verschuer

Kiyomori, Itsukushima, and Fukuhara / Heather Blair

The Heike poets / Anne Commons

Heike nokyo as repertoire: contextualizing Kiyomori's devotional practice of copying sutras / Monika Dix

Fact and fiction in the Heike monogatari / Takahashi Masaaki

Survival and salvation in the Heike monogatari: reassessing the legacy of Kenreimon'in / Lori Meeks

Horrified victors: spirit pacification of Taira losers / Naoko Gunji

A miracle at Morihisa's execution: reading legends of the origin of Kiyomizudera / X. Jie Yang

Envisioning the classics: the tale of the Heike in Edo-period comicbooks / Adam L. Kern

Kiyomori and his family in postwar Japan: Mizoguchi's Shin Heike monogatari (The new tale of the Heike) / Hitomi Tonomura.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780824868246

0824868242

Publisher Number:

99985032637

40025421559

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