Table of contents : Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Terminology and Translations Chapter One. Blurring the Lines: Repositioning the Heike Part I. The Heike in Action Chapter Two. Fukuhara: Kiyomori’s Lost Capital Chapter Three. Heike Trade and the Meaning of Wealth Chapter Four. Kiyomori, Itsukushima, and Fukuhara Chapter Five. The Heike Poets Chapter Six. Heike Nōkyō as Repertoire: Contextualizing Kiyomori’s Devotional Practice of Copying Sutras Part II. The Heike in Memory Chapter Seven. Fact and Fiction in the Heike monogatari Chapter Eight. Survival and Salvation in the Heike monogatari: Reassessing the Legacy of Kenreimon’in Chapter Nine. Horrified Victors: Spirit Pacification of Heike Losers Chapter Ten. A Miracle at Morihisa’s Execution: Reading Legends of the Origin of Kiyomizudera Chapter Eleven. Envisioning the Classics: The Tale of the Heike in Edo-Period Comic Books Chapter Twelve. Kiyomori and His Family in Postwar Japan: Mizoguchi’s Shin Heike monogatari (The New Tale of the Heike) References Index