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		Heike Monogatari (the story of Heike) is a well-known Japanese epic, which has been performed during the ages in many different versions and styles, however the main characteristic - its reciting - always has been present.
		Heike Monogatari describes the short-term prosperity of the Heike clan, from the beginning of the twelfth century till their ruin in 1185, when they lost their war with the Genji clan from Kamakura (just south of nowadays Tokyo).
		Heike was located in the Kyoto area, but during the war, while attempting to escape, they gradually moved southward, so that most of the famous war stories happened somewhere in the Inland Sea of Seto.
	www.junkoueda.com /pages/biwa.html (1648 words)

	Heike Monogatari
		The Tale of the Heike is the classic of medieval samurai fiction--the romance of the warrior, which in Japanese fiction comes after the romance of the lover, instead of before as in Western literature.
		The heroes (and villains) of the Tale of the Heike are battlefield warriors, however, and this is the period, the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), when the mystique of the samurai develops.
		It is essentially the story of a fall from political power provoked by pride, the pride of the Taira clan of warriors (the Heike) faced with the rise of the Minamoto clan (the Genji), whom the Taira had defeated in the 1160s.
	www.washburn.edu /reference/bridge24/Heike.html (575 words)

	1996 AAS Abstracts: Japan Session 31
		There are thus two kinds of texts of Heike Monogatari, one for the Genji and the other for the Heike, which will be the focus of this talk.
		Heike monogatari variants are broadly divided on the basis of textual features into two types.
		Examples will be drawn from illustrations of episodes from the Heike involving exiles and recluses, comparing how their stories are told verbally and visually, with reference to several different textual and iconographical traditions.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1996abst/japan/j31.htm (976 words)

	Heike Monogatari Criticism and Essays
		The Heike Monogatari (The Tale of the Heike) is considered one of the greatest masterpieces of Japanese literature.
		The tale concludes with the annihilation of the Heike clan.
		The Heike Monogatari mainly concerns itself with the fall of the Heike courtiers and the concurrent rise of a new warrior class in Japan.
	www.enotes.com /classical-medieval-criticism/heike-monogatari (938 words)

	The Heike Monogatari: Knighthood in Medieval Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Heike Monogatari is an intense and potent fictional history that brings the elements of the past into a somewhat orderly and manageable text and has been a primary source of Japanese understanding of samurai loyalty and character.
		As we examine the Heike Monogatari for all of its qualities as a literary work, we must also be conscious of its place in Japanese history, its construction and revisions, as well as the readership of its own day.
		Despite some of the ambiguity of the formative years of the Heike Monogatari's development, the Kakuichi text of 1371 is a fusion of the various competing versions which preceded it, perhaps drawing on elements outside the schools of recitation as it grew.
	www.karatethejapaneseway.com /research/heike_01.html (478 words)

	about JAPAN -Famous Japanese Tales- Genji Monogatari, Heike Monogatari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Heike Monogatari is a war chronicle which appeared in the 13th century.
		It tells the story of the splendor, downfall and final ruin of the Heike clan, the last rulers of the ancient era at the end of the 12th century.
		Heike Monogatari is not just a documentary work; it also has an epic element.
	www.oren.jp /japan_08.htm (212 words)

	Tale of the Heike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Tale of the Heike is a long narrative about the fall of the Taira clan and the victory of the Minamoto.
		The sympathy of the Heike is with the Taira, who are presented as tragic aristocrats, overcome by the rough forces of the provincial Minamoto.
		The Tale of the Heike is a one of a genre of gunki monogatari (military tales) and probably played a significant role in shaping military ethics and values: personal loyalty to one's lord; negation of the self; self-sacrifice unto death; an austere and simple life; control of the appetites and emotions; an honorable death.
	f00.middlebury.edu /JA216A/heike/heike.html (328 words)

	The Tale of the Heike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tale of the Heike (平家物語, Heike Monogatari
		Heike(平家) refers to the Taira(平) clan, hei being an alternate reading of the kanji (character) for Taira.
		The Tale of the Heike has provided material for many later artistic works ranging from Noh plays to woodblock prints.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heike_Monogatari (500 words)

	JAANUS / heike-e 平家絵
		The usual abbreviation of Heike monogatari-e 平家物語絵, illustrations of famous incidents concerning the Taira 平 family (Heike) taken primarily from the epic war-tale, HEIKE MONOGATARI 平家物語 (The Tale of The Heike).
		Edo period publications of The Tale of The Heike were often illustrated.
		However genji-e refers to depictions of GENJI MONOGATARI 源氏物語 (The Tale of Genji), a Heian novel unrelated to the Minamoto clan (Genji), of HEIKE MONOGATARI.
	www.aisf.or.jp /~jaanus/deta/h/heikee.htm (233 words)

	The Heike Monogatari: Knighthood in Medieval Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Tale of the Heike is a powerful testament to the past and a continual reminder to present day readers of the role of warriors in history.
		But otherwise the Minamoto represent the future, and indeed some of them and their followers are portrayed in terms of the exaggeratedly superior prowess and courage that were to become stereotypical of the war tales of the medieval age.
		Although The Heike Monogatari portrays the utter destruction of the Taira clan* it is very much a narrative which addresses immediate concerns of both political and religious institutions.
	karatethejapaneseway.com /research/heike_02.html (523 words)

	Genji Monogatari [Archive] - Japan Forum
		The length has always amazed me since after reading other monogatari of the period I thought it was truly amazing that a women had written close to 10 times of her male conterparts.
		Heike Monogatari about the Heike clan which was in power right before the Heian period is only like 300 pages max compared to the Genji Monogatari which is about 1,300.
		The Tale of the Heike wasn't written down for more than a century, so there is at least 300 years seperating the two written stories.
	www.jref.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-975.html (1027 words)

	Heike Monogatari
		The "Tales of the Heike" (Heike Monogatari) is a collection of episodic stories related to the rise and downfall of the Taira clan in twelfth century Kyoto.
		The "Tales of the Heike" seems to have been compiled piecemeal, as stories told about the Gempei battles were polished and elaborated, and exists in several versions.
		One of the most heavily depicted scenes from the Heike Monogatari, in both actor and kabuki prints, concerns the death of Taira Atsumori at the hands of the Eastern warrior Kumagae no Naozane.
	www.artelino.com /articles/heike-monogatari.asp (2726 words)

	The Tale of the Heike (1988)
		This is the most complete, and perhaps best, translation of the classic Japanese war tale, Heike monogatari, which narrates the rapid decline and tragic downfall of the mighty Taira clan during the fateful five years after 1180.
		And indeed, THE TALE OF THE HEIKE is just that, the story of transience and of pitiful fate, as well as a record of honor, deceit, bravery, and cowardliness.
		There is some potential for confusion when the occasional Chinese or Japanese legend or story sidetracks the author, but they all form a coherent whole, and serve as establishing precedents or providing allusions to what is to come.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /books/reviews/t/tale-of-the-heike.html (1127 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike: Being Two Thirteenth Century Japanese Classics, "The Hojoki" ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Also known as the Heike Monogatori, this epic poem is basically just an account of the great war between the Heike and Genji clans occurring in approximately the 12th Century.
		These two opposing clans were locked in a major war for the control of Japan, which would culminate in the destruction of one of the clans and the national dominance of the other.
		Tales of the Heike is one of the first military tales of Japan, which is not particualrly surprising, as the war between the Heike and Genji was formative in Japan's history: it was a time when the Samurai code, Bushido, was still developing and when the Samurai tradition was still in its infancy.
	www.amazon.ca /Foot-Square-Hut-Tales-Heike/dp/0837131146 (432 words)

	japanlinks
		The Genji decided to descend the cliff with superhuman bravery on horseback; this cliff was a long steep decline ending in a seventy foot vertical drop, and the army descended this cliff on horseback!.
		This legendary action spelled the end of the Heike and their power as the Genji warriors destroyed the Heike and forced the survivors to swim to their boats anchored in the harbor, effectively ending Heike dominance forever.
		In the Heike Monogatari, Tomoe Gozen was a general in the troops of Kiso Yoshinaka, Yoritomo's first attack force.
	www.ias.berkeley.edu /orias/japanlinks.html (1775 words)

	Heike Monogatari: A Medieval Japanese Epic
		As the bards declaimed the sagas, therefore, there were not just telling stories but they were calling out for the attention of the dead and this lent a dangerous and uncanny air to the proceedings.
		The Heike Monogatari is one of the most famous of these sagas.
		This rivalry was fought out for domination of the state of Japan and the battles fought between them were of considerable importance in determining the fate of the country.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/east_asian_history/113304 (420 words)

	Heike Monogatari Text
		The hard-pressed Heike samurai may have considered themselves overmatched, for they hurried back into the stronghold to fight from its protection.
		The men on the archery platforms aligned their arrows and released showers of missiles, but because the Genji numbers were fewer by far, Naozane and the others escaped harm, lost in the melee.
		But the Heike horses were exhausted from having been overriden, underfed, and forced to stand in boats for long periods of time.
	www.glopac.org /Jparc/Atsumori/Heiketxt.htm (2084 words)

	Amazon.com: The Tale of the Heike: Books: Helen Craig McCullough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The great Japanese civil war in the latter half of the 12th century between the Taira (Heike) and the Minamoto (Genji) ended with the Minamoto victory at Dan-no-Ura in 1185.
		This is no small achievement since the Heike tale is populated by many diverse characters some of whom are only mentioned once whereas others have great influence on the plot despite their brief appearances.
		As one of Japan's most important pieces of historical literature, the Tale of the Heike provides a glimpse into the last days of the courtly Heian period, just as it was replaced by the Kamakura Shogunate at the end of the Twelfth Century.
	www.amazon.com /Tale-Heike-Helen-Craig-McCullough/dp/0804718032 (1839 words)

	Heike monogatari
		The medieval Japanese prose narrative Heike monogatari (The Tale of the Heike) follows now the victors, now the vanquished, in an account of a one of the great turning points in Japanese history.
		Since Heike is on every school curriculum, some of the materials are aimed at students, or created with their help.
		As university catalogues appear on the Web, one discovers that HEIKE is widely taught on American campuses, not just in survey courses of Japanese literature but also in broader studies of comparative or world literature.
	www.meijigakuin.ac.jp /~watson/heike/heike.html (2041 words)

	Revisionist Histories: Mizoguchi Kenji's Shin Heike Monogatari
		With regard to Mizoguchi’s film, though, it is the particular state of Japan in the latter decades of this period that are of most note, as it is here that one finds several situations rife with connotative potential as they pertain to the time of the film’s production in 1955.
		Shin Heike Monogatari, a reasonably rare film among Mizoguchi’s late period works in not being centrally concerned with the social situation of victimised women figures (though this is peripherally present), dramatises an incident in the life of future Taira clan head, Kiyomori.
		He discovers that instead of being the son of a samurai as he had always thought to be the case, he may in fact be the son of either the current emperor or a monk.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/05/36/shin_heike_monogatari.html (990 words)

	Amazon.com: "Heike Monogatari": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With the Kokinshttt, the Genji Monogatari, and the later military romance, the Heike Monogatari*,...
		Tales of the Hógen Era) anti the Heike Monogatari (Tales of the Heike) provide romanticised versions of the historical events.
		For instance, some of the warriors portrayed in the Heike Monogatari (Tale of the Heike) lamented the fact, at reflective moments or when they had committed some militarily necessary cruelty, that...
	amazon.com /phrase/Heike-Monogatari (356 words)

	Japanorama Classical Japanese Literature
		anonymous historical romance depicting the rise and fall of the Taira (aka Heike) clan and their defeat by the Minamoto (aka Genji) clan.
		Iconography of the Tale of Genji: Genji Monogatari Ekotoba
		Ueda wrote Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Ugetsu Monogatari), upon which is based the movie Ugetsu.
	www.japanorama.com /classlit.html (1085 words)

	Ken Butler -- publications
		A portion of my 1966 Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies monograph "The Textual Evolution of the Heike Monogatari" and all of my 1969 Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies article "The Heike Monogatari and the Japanese Warrior Ethic" were republished in 2001 in this volume, on pp.
		"The Heike Monogatari and Theories of Oral Epic Literature," Bulletin of the Faculty of Letters, Seikei University, Tokyo, 1966.
		"The Heike Monogatari and the Japanese Warrior Ethic," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 29, 1969.
	home.inter.net /kenbutler/kenbutlerpublications.html (1138 words)

	Heike - The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews Heike Philp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The NY Times review of Shin Heike Monogatari, a Kenji Mizoguchi film starring Raizo Ichikawa and.
		And indeed, THE TALE OF THE HEIKE is just that, the story of transience and of pitiful fate, The fate of the Heike (Taira) deserves a lot of tears.
		Heike and Brett's Heike Click here to begin the European Adventure Brett Adventure.
	fineportal.com /?q=heike (178 words)

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		I'm looking for a source where we can buy a videotape, or rent a video or 16mm film of the 1955 Japanese movie "Shin Heike Monogatari" (sometimes spelled Shin Heiki Monogatari), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
		I don't need public performance licensing, as it's only for classroom use.
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	Shin Heike Monogatari - DramaWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 10th NHK Taiga Drama is Shin Heike Monogatari.
		Battles and intrigue abound, as the puppet Emperor and Buddhist monks take sides in the power struggle.
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		It's the same title as the entry "Shin Heike Monogatari" which is noted as unavailable.
		With kind regards Peter Delin/Videolektorat Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin Marilyn Huntley schrieb: > > I'm looking for a source where we can buy a videotape, or rent a video or > 16mm film of the 1955 Japanese movie "Shin Heike Monogatari" (sometimes > spelled Shin Heiki Monogatari), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
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