Lovable Losers : : The Heike in Action and Memory /

Lovable Losers : : The Heike in Action and Memory / / ed. by Anne Commons, Mikael S. Adolphson.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Adolphson, Mikael S.,
Blair, Heather,
Commons, Anne,
Dix, Monika,
Gunji, Naoko,
Kern, Adam L.,
Masaaki, Takahashi,
Meeks, Lori,
Tonomura, Hitomi,
Verschuer, Charlotte von,
Yang, X. Jie,
HerausgeberIn:
Adolphson, Mikael S.,
Commons, Anne,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (302 p.) :; 22 b&w illustrations, 6 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Terminology and Translations
  • Chapter One. Blurring the Lines: Repositioning the Heike
  • Part I. The Heike in Action
  • Chapter Two. Fukuhara: Kiyomori's Lost Capital
  • Chapter Three. Heike Trade and the Meaning of Wealth
  • Chapter Four. Kiyomori, Itsukushima, and Fukuhara
  • Chapter Five. The Heike Poets
  • Chapter Six. Heike Nōkyō as Repertoire: Contextualizing Kiyomori's Devotional Practice of Copying Sutras
  • Part II. The Heike in Memory
  • Chapter Seven. Fact and Fiction in the Heike monogatari
  • Chapter Eight. Survival and Salvation in the Heike monogatari: Reassessing the Legacy of Kenreimon'in
  • Chapter Nine. Horrified Victors: Spirit Pacification of Heike Losers
  • Chapter Ten. A Miracle at Morihisa's Execution: Reading Legends of the Origin of Kiyomizudera
  • Chapter Eleven. Envisioning the Classics: The Tale of the Heike in Edo-Period Comic Books
  • Chapter Twelve. Kiyomori and His Family in Postwar Japan: Mizoguchi's Shin Heike monogatari (The New Tale of the Heike)
  • References
  • Index

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