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Title:

Lovable Losers : the Heike in Action and Memory / edited by Mikael S. Adolphson and Anne Commons.

Publisher:

University of Hawaiʻi Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiv, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Taira family.
Taira family--In literature.
Heike monogatari.
Taira family.
Heike monogatari.
Japan--History--Heian period, 794-1185.
Literature.
Japan.
794 - 1185
History.

Other Authors:

Adolphson, Mikael S., 1961- editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00046375
Commons, Anne, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009000335

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

0824846753
9780824846756

OCLC:

(OCoLC)904047278

LCCN:

2015005589

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)