The Tale of the Heike

Royall Tyler (Translator); Michael Watson (Translator)

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 Jap...