Lovable losers : the Heike in action and memory /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Commons, Anne (Editor), Adolphson, Mikael S., 1961- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Taira family > In literature.
Taira family.
Taira (Famille)
Taira family
Heike monogatari.
Heike monogatari
794-1185
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Literature
Japan > History > Heian period, 794-1185.
Japon > Histoire > 794-1185 (Époque de Heian)
Japan
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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