"Warrior tales are a key genre of medieval Japanese literature. Unlike earlier chronicles that focus on the communication of historical fact, the beginning in the early 13th century, such tales try to recreate inner life of the warriors, and take...
A Great Valley Under the Stars is the first book of poetry by Royall Tyler, the award-winning translator of The Tale of Genji, The Tale of the Heike, and other works of Japanese literature. Royall Tyler writes: "Distilled from notes and pages written...