Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and index.
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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