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Modern fiction, Fiction, History, General
In late 12th Century Japan, one noble house (the Heike, or Taira, clan) attempts to sieze the throne, only to be defeated by another (the Minamoto clan). This fictionalized oral history of the Genpei war became the foundation myth of the Kamakura shogunate. It stands as Japan's equivalent to the Illiad, or the Morte d'Arthur.
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Epic, plot-driven, prestige and bleak.
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The original authors of this major Japanese epic are not recorded. It was passed down by generations of bards until a "definitive" oral text was said to be established by Shōbutsu and written down by Yukinaga. The 1371 C.E. text recorded by Kakuichi was long regarded as the reference text. Several translations have been made into English as _The tale of the Heike_: by Arthur Lindsay Sadler in 1918–1921, by Hiroshi Kitagawa & Bruce T. Tsuchida published in 1975, by Helen Craig McCullough in 1988, an abridged translation by Burton Dewitt Watson published in 2006, and by Royall Tyler in 2012.
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