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Heike Monogatari tells the tragic tale of the Heike clan, who reached their zenith of power about 800 years ago only to be annihilated within a few decades. Though they are gone, their story lives on.

Case Western Reserve University and the Japan Foundation will host Sachi Schmidt-Hori, assistant professor of Asian societies cultures and languages at Dartmouth College, for a talk today (April 14) ...

A young girl named Biwa is the heroine of “Heike Monogatari” (The Heike Story), a Japanese anime series. In the series, based on a medieval Japanese war epic called "The Tale of the Heike," Biwa ...

The 13th-century “Heike Monogatari” (“The Tale of the Heike“) is the most characteristically Japanese of masterpieces. All the great themes are here, inseparably interwoven: war, love, religion, death ...

1955. 108 min. 16 mm. Color. In Japanese, with English subtitles. This lavish, sweeping, historical epic is set at the end of the 12th century, when a long period of peace was disrupted by several ...

An epic retelling of the 12th century Japanese civil war, “The Tale of the Heike” (Heike Monogatari) has provided the source material for Kabuki, Noh and bunraku plays, novels and films. Printmakers ...

HOUSTON, January 31, 2015 — Asia Society Texas Center hosted Japanese master biwa artist Akiko Sakurai on January 31 for a solo concert of narrative songs from Japan’s medieval period. Set sparsely on ...

Some wars spawn myths. Some spawn epics. Some spawn both; others, neither. The 13th-century Mongol invasions of Japan spawned a myth — the “divine wind” that repulsed the invading fleet — but no epic.