Swords, oaths, and prophetic visions
Subtitle: authoring warrior rule in medieval Japan
By: Elizabeth Oyler.
Publisher: University of Hawaiì Press; Univ of Hawaii Pr; Brand: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Honolulu, Hawaii
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780824829223
Subjects: Japanese literature -- 1185-1600 -- History and criticism; Historical fiction, Japanese -- History and criticism; Japan -- History -- Genpei Wars, 1180-1185 -- Literature and the war
Other titles: Authoring warrior rule in medieval Japan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Heike monogatari and narating Genpei War; title: Minamoto Yoritomo: dreams from exile; title: Kiso Yoshinaka: petitioning Hachiman; title: Minamoto Yoshitsune: fealty oaths, fall from grace; title: The Soga brothers: swords and lineage; title: Warrior rule in medieval Japan.