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Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan

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Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan - Oyler, Elizabeth
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Investigates some historically important political and social issues raised by the Genpei War (1180-1185). This epic civil conflict, which ushered in Japan's age of the warriors, is famously articulated in the monumental narrative Heike monogatari (The Tale of the Heike).

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Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan 2006, University of Hawaii Press

ISBN-13: 9780824829223

Hardcover