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A warrior wrestles down an enemy commander, only to discover his foe is as young as his own son. Shaken by his warrior's duty to slay the youth, he becomes a monk. This famous encounter between Kumagai no Jiro Naozane and Taira no Atsumori during Japan's Heike wars has been essential to Japan's historical and religious tradition ever since it was first told. In" Memoires of the Warrior Kumagai" Donald Richie challenges and upends conventionl versions of this incident, even as he vividly evokes the world of a 12th century Japanese warrior with uncompromised precision and authority. The result is a historical novel in the grand tradition, a work at once fresh and timeless.
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"Donald Richie" was born in Lima, OH in 1924 and has lived in Japan since 1947. The author of thirty books and dozens of essays, Richie is especially well-known for his travel memoir "The Inland Sea" which has been adapted into a popular PBS documentary. His best-known collection is "The Donald Richie Reader, " which contains 50 years of his writings on Japan.
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This retelling of this famous and ancient tale of how the fearsome Kumagi abandoned soldiering during the Keike wars to become a monk, challenges conventional versions of the story, while at the same time evoking the 12th-century world of the Japanese warrior.
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- PublisherTuttle Publishing
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0804821267
- ISBN 13 9780804821261
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