From the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji, a groundbreaking rendering of Japan's great martial epic The fourteenth-century Tale of the Heike is Japan's Iliad-a moving depiction of the late twelfth-century wars between the Heike...

Two hundred and twenty tales from medieval Japan-tales that welcome us into a fabulous faraway world populated by saints, scoundrels, ghosts, magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of...

„The Tale of Genji“ ist ein klassisches Werk der japanischen Literatur, das als eines der ersten Romane der Welt gilt. Geschrieben von Murasaki Shikibu im frühen