¡Shin Heike Monogatari1 (Shincho Bunko)
¡Yoshikawa Eiji
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[Machine Translation] At the end of the Heian period (794-1185), the decadence of court politics, which considered only its own interests and did not care about the hearts of the people, led to the rise of a new power, the samurai. The samurai, a new power, rose to power. Taira no Kiyomori, a brilliant warrior and politician, had great ambitions and rose to the top of the warrior class.... Kiyomori, Minamoto no Yoritomo, Yoshitsune, Benkei, Shizuka no Gozen, and the late Emperor Go-Shirakawa. The novel, a must-read for all the people of Japan, finally opens with a mixture of heroes, great generals, great heroes, and beautiful women. This first volume depicts Kiyomori's extraordinary rise to power in a closed society.
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