Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Terminology and Translations xiii
6. Chapter One. Blurring the Lines: Repositioning the Heike 1
7. Part I. The Heike in Action
8. Chapter Two. Fukuhara: Kiyomori’s Lost Capital 17
9. Chapter Three. Heike Trade and the Meaning of Wealth 39
10. Chapter Four. Kiyomori, Itsukushima, and Fukuhara 58
11. Chapter Five. The Heike Poets 78
12. Chapter Six. Heike Nōkyō as Repertoire: Contextualizing Kiyomori’s Devotional Practice of Copying Sutras 99
13. Part II. The Heike in Memory
14. Chapter Seven. Fact and Fiction in the Heike monogatari 127
15. Chapter Eight. Survival and Salvation in the Heike monogatari: Reassessing the Legacy of Kenreimon’in 142
16. Chapter Nine. Horrified Victors: Spirit Pacification of Heike Losers 166
17. Chapter Ten. A Miracle at Morihisa’s Execution: Reading Legends of the Origin of Kiyomizudera 185
18. Chapter Eleven. Envisioning the Classics: The Tale of the Heike in Edo-Period Comic Books 206
19. Chapter Twelve. Kiyomori and His Family in Postwar Japan: Mizoguchi’s Shin Heike monogatari (The New Tale of the Heike) 227
20. References 249
21. Index 269