Translated from the Japanese.
Introduction
book 1: The bells of Gion Monastery ; Night attack at Courtiers' Hall ; The sea bass ; Page-boy cuts ; Kiyomori's flowering fortunes ; Giō
book 2: The admonition ; Signal fires ; The death of the senior counselor ; Yasuyori's prayer
book 3: The pardon ; The foot-drumming ; Ariō ; The death of Shunkan
book 4: The battle at the bridge
book 5: The burning of Nara
book 6: The death of Kiyomori
book 7: Sanemori ; Tadanori leaves the capital ; The flight from Fukuhara
book 8 [summary]
book 9: The death of Lord Kiso ; The old horse ; The attack from the cliff ; The death of Tadanori ; The capture of Shigehira ; The death of Atsumori
book 10: Regarding the precepts ; Senju-no-mae ; Yokobue ; Koremori becomes a monk ; Koremori drowns himself
book 11: The death of Tsuginobu ; Nasu no Yoichi ; The lost bow ; The cockfights and the battle of Dan-no-ura ; Far-flying arrows ; The drowning of the former emperor
book 12: The execution of Rokudai
The initiates' book: The imperial lady becomes a nun ; The move to Ōhara ; The retired emperor visits Ōhara ; The six paths of existence ; The death of the imperial lady
Glossary of characters.
The tales of the Heike. ISBN 0231510837. Published by Columbia University Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.