The Dawn of the Warrior Age

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Royall Tyler is the award-winning translator of The Tale of the Heike and The Tale of Genji. His Columbia University Press books include The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity (2016) and Joy, Despair, Illusion, Dreams: Twenty Plays from the N Tradition (2024). After teaching at Ohio State University, the University of WisconsinMadison, and the University of Oslo, Tyler retired from the Australian National University.

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The three war tales translated in this book tell the story of the crucial decades surrounding the events chronicled in The Tale of the Heike, vividly recording stages in the passage from rule by the imperial court in Kyoto to rule by the warrior government in Kamakura.

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The war between the Heike and Genji clans in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is among the most compelling and significant moments in Japan's history, immortalized in The Tale of the Heike. Beyond the events recorded in this canonical text, the conflicts of the surrounding years are crucial to medieval Japanese culture and history. In 1156, power began to slip away from the court nobility in Kyoto. A shogunate was later founded in Kamakura, and in 1221, it won a decisive victory over the court.

The three war tales translated in this book tell the story of these critical decades, vividly recording stages in the passage from rule by the imperial court in Kyoto to rule by the warrior government in Kamakura. The Tale of the Hgen Years recounts a deposed emperor's disastrous attempt to regain the throne in 1156. The Tale of the Heiji Years narrates a bloody clash between rival courtier factions in 1159. An Account of the Jky Years records Kamakura's victory over the imperial attempt to overthrow it in 1221. These works do not simply complete the story of The Tale of the Heikethey are classics of Japanese literature in their own right. Royall Tyler's lively translation masterfully conveys the nature of medieval Japanese warfare, rendering aristocratic power politics and the brutal realities of violence with equal aplomb. The Dawn of the Warrior Age is an essential book for readers interested in premodern Japanese history and literature.

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Introduction
The Tale of the Hgen Years
Summary and Note on the Text
Book 1

1. The Accession of Emperor Go-Shirakawa
2. Retired Emperor Toba's Pilgrimage to Kumano and The Oracle Delivered There
3. The Death of Retired Emperor Toba
4. Sutoku Moves to Rebel
5. The Emperor's Forces Fan Out and Chikaharu and His Men Are Taken Alive
6. Sutoku's Rebellion Comes to Light and A Move to Suppress It with Palace Minister Saneyoshi's Advice
7. Sutoku Summons Tameyoshi
8. Yorinaga Comes Up to the Capital with His Arrival
9. The Mustering of the Emperor's Forces
10. The Gates to Sutoku's Residence Are Secured with A Debate on Battle Tactics
11. The General's Barrow Rumbles and A Comet Appears
12. The Emperor Proceeds to Tsanj with A Roster of the Emperor's Forces
    Book 2
13. Yoshitomo's Night Attack on the Shirakawa Mansion
14. The Fall of the Shirakawa Mansion
15. Sutoku and Yorinaga Flee
16. Sutoku's Escape to Mount Nyoi
17. The Burning of the Rebels' Houses
18. Sutoku Renounces the World
19. By Imperial Command, Shigenari Guards Sutoku
20. The Regent Tadamichi Resumes His Rightful Duties with The Warriors' Rewards
21. The Death of Yorinaga with Tadazane's Grief
    Book 3
22. The Capture of the Rebels
23. Prince Shigehito Renounces the World
24. The Surrender of Tameyoshi
25. The Execution of Tadamasa, Iehiro, and Others
26. The Death of Tameyoshi
27. The Execution of Yoshitomo's Younger Brothers
28. The Execution of Yoshitomo's Child Brothers
29. Tameyoshi's Wife Drowns Herself
30. The Inspection of Yorinaga's Body
31. Retired Emperor Sutoku Moves to Sanuki
32. Yorinaga's Sons and Other Rebels Start into Exile
33. Lord Tadazane's Return to the Capital
34. The Capture and Exile of Tametomo
35. Sutoku Copies the Sutras in Blood and Writes a Curse at the End with His Death
36. Tametomo Crosses to Devil Island and His Death
    The Tale of the Heiji Years
    Summary and Note on the Text
    Book 1
37. The Rivalry Between Nobuyori and Shinzei
38. Nobuyori Plots to Destroy Shinzei
39. The Attack on the Sanj Palace and The Burning of Shinzei's House
40. Shinzei's Sons Are Stripped of Office
41. How Shinzei Came to Renounce the World and The Matter of the Appointments List
42. The Inspection of Shinzei's Head with His Flight to Nara and His Death
43. Shinzei's Head Is Paraded and Hung at the Prison Gate
44. Rokuhara Sends a Courier to Kumano
45. Lord Mitsuyori Goes to the Palace with Kiyomori Returns to Rokuhara
46. The Sentence on Shinzei's Sons Is Commuted to Exile
47. Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa Moves to Ninnaji
48. Emperor Nij Proceeds to Rokuhara
49. The Roster of Nobuyori's Forces
50. The Battle at the Taiken Gate
    Book 2
51. Yoshitomo Attacks Rokuhara with Nobuyori's Flight and Yorimasa Backs the Heike
52. The Battle of Rokuhara
53. Yoshitomo's Defeat
54. Nobuyori's Surrender with His Death
55. Official Appointments for the Emperor's Men with The Rebels Are Stripped of Offices and Honors
56. The Report to Tokiwa with The Exile of Shinzei's Sons
57. Kon'maru Races Back from Owari to Report Yoshitomo's Death
58. Tadamune, Yoshitomo's Killer, Hastens to Rokuhara with The Parading of Yoshitomo's Head
59. The Execution of Akugenda
60. Tadamune's Dissatisfaction
61. The Capture of Yoritomo
62. Tokiwa's Flight
    Book 3
63. Kiyomori Spares Yoritomo with The War Between Wu and Yue
64. Tokiwa Goes to Rokuhara
65. The Exile and Recall of Tsunemune and Korekata
66. The Banishment of Yoritomo with Moriyasu's Dream
67. Kiyomori Renounces the World and He Visits the Nunobiki Waterfall with Akugenda Becomes a Thunderbolt
68. Ushiwaka Goes Down to the North
69. Yoritomo Raises Righteous Forces with He Crushes the Heike
    An Account of the Jky Years
    Summary and Note on the Text
    Book 1
70. The Cosmic and Historical Background
71. The Taira-Minamoto Conflict
72. The End of Yoritomo's Line
73. Go-Toba Decides to Curb the Power of Kamakura
74. The Attack on Mitsusue
75. Go-Toba Decrees the Dismissal of Hj Yoshitoki
76. The Reaction in Kamakura
77. Kamakura Plans Its Campaign
    Book 2
78. Go-Toba Launches His Campaign
79. The Clash with Tsukui Takashige
80. Crossing the Rivers
81. Go-Toba Learns of the Defeat
82. The Deaths of Taneyoshi and Shigesada
83. Yasutoki at Rokuhara; Yoshitoki Ordains the Rebels' Fates
84. The Retired Emperors Are Banished
85. Banishments and Executions
86. Noritsugu and Seitaka
    Significant Figures Mentioned in the Translations
    Maps
    Genealogical Charts