The Taiheiki
Subtitle: A Chronicle of Medieval Japan
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780804835381
Subjects: Literature: Texts; World history: c 500 to C 1500; History: World; History; History - General History; Asia - Japan; Medieval; 1288-1339; Emperor of Japan,; Fiction; Godaigo,; Japan; Period of northern and southern courts, 1336-1392; War stories
First sentence: NOW IN THE REIGN OF THE Emperor Go-Daigo, there lived a warrior known to men as Taira no Takatoki the governor of Sagami, even in days of Go-Daigo Tenno, the ninety-fifth of mortal sovereigns in our land.