Further reading

Apart from different translations of the original text, more on which can be found here, the following sources have helped me tremendously in creating this website:

• John R Wallace's website on the Heike Monogatari
• Michael G Watson's website on the Heike Monogatari

The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 2: Heian Japan
• Donald H. Shively and William H. McCullough (eds.) (1999). The Cambridge History of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Available from: Cambridge Histories Online)

Multimedia on this website are mostly taken from the following sources:

Zenken Kojitsu (前賢故実) by Kikuchi Yōsai (菊池 容斎)
• Several editions can be found in the National Diet Library Digital Collections


• Heike Monogatari Picture Books (平家物語絵本) from a series photographed by Meisei University in 2007 and displayed on their website
• John Resig's Ukiyo-e (浮世絵) database
• William Pearl's website on Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川 国芳)

For more background information on the Heike Monogatari I refer to the following texts:

Hōgen monogatari (保元物語)
• Wilson, W. R. (2001). Hogen Monogatari: Tale of the Disorder in Hogen. Cornell Univ East Asia Program. (First published as a Monumenta Nipponica monograph in 1971)

Heiji monogatari (平治物語)
• Chalitpatanangune, M. (1987). Heiji Monogatari: A Study and Annotated Translation of the Oldest Text. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.

Hōjōki (方丈記) by Kamo no Chōmei (鴨 長明)
• English translation by Robert N. Lawson: LINK

Tsurezuregusa (徒然草) by Yoshida Kenkō (吉田 兼好)
• Sansom, G. (1911). The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi. Asiatic Society of Japan Transactions, 39.
• Porter, W. N. (1914). The Miscellany of a Japanese Priest. London: Humphrey Milford. LINK
• Keene, D. (1998). Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō. New York: Columbia University Press.