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Episode 3: The Tale of the Heike—The great samurai epic and the rise of the samurai class.
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Find Out More
A. L. Sadler’s text of The Tale of the Heike (free online)
Website for The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari)
- Reading notes and summaries of the entire Tale of the Heike
The History of Japan Podcast, hosted by Isaac Meyer
- Episode 5: Dream on a Spring Night
- The Genpei War and The Tale of the Heike
- Episode 37: Warrior Women
Linfamy’s Japanese History and Folktales YouTube Channel
“Tomoe Gozen: Badass Women in Japanese History” at Tofugu.com
Japanese Literature at Facebook
Sources
Marcus, Marvin. Japanese Literature from Murasaki to Murakami. Association for Asian Studies, 2015.
McAlpine, Helen and William. Japanese Tales and Legends, Oxford, 1989.
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