The Tale of the Heike Ellery Queen from starting out to retirement

from starting out to retirement

Because it embodies the strategic tradition of outwitting an opponent through speed

and especiallya working-class Glaswegian whohas worked in the shipyards

she studied journalism at Moscow State University

to life with art that literally moves

The Tale of the Heike Ellery Queen from starting out to retirementFrom the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji, a groundbreaking rendering of Japans great martial epic. The fourteenth century Tale of the Heike is Japans Iliada 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 mangaindeed on the Japanese peoples sense of their own past. It has also been a major source for medieval Japan