Lovable Losers: The Heike in Action and Memory 9780824856908
Lovable Losers is the first substantial piece of English-language scholarship to examine the actions and the memorizatio
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Table of contents :
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
