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Lovable Losers : The Heike in Action and Memory /

Lovable Losers is the first substantial piece of English-language scholarship to examine the actions and the memorization of the Heike (Ise Taira), a family of aristocratic warriors whose resounding defeat at the hands of the Seiwa Genji in 1185 resulted in their iconic status as tragic losers. The...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Adolphson, Mikael S., 1961- (Editor ), Commons, Anne (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.