{"product_id":"9780143107262","title":"The Tale of the Heike","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the acclaimed translator of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Tale of Genji\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, a groundbreaking rendering of Japan’s great martial epic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fourteenth-century \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTale of the Heike\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Japan’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIliad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—a moving depiction of the late twelfth-century wars between the Heike and Genji clans. No work has had a greater impact on later Japanese literature, theater, music, film, and manga—indeed on the Japanese people’s sense of their own past. It has also been a major source for medieval-Japan-based fantasy in English. With woodcuts by nineteenth-century artist Teisai Hokuba, a major student of the great Hokusai, Royall Tyler’s stunning presentation of this touchstone of Japanese culture recreates the oral epic as it was actually performed and conveys the rich and vigorous language of the original.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ingram Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51816583561447,"sku":"Fiction: Japan","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/3680\/9959\/files\/91G_PiaqcML._SL1500.jpg?v=1771965901","url":"https:\/\/jfbooks.org\/products\/9780143107262","provider":"JF Books | 季風書園","version":"1.0","type":"link"}