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Heike Monogatari

 
Asian Mythology: Heike Monogatari

The Heike Monogatari is one of the greatest Japanese war epics (gunki monogatari). It was written from oral sources early in the thirteenth century. The epic concerns the rise and fall of the Heike or Taira clan of samurai and the eventual ascendancy of the rival Genji or Minamoto clan.

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