Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai ebook

by Donald Richie

Donald Richie is well known for his skill and expertise in writing on Japan and his other books are . It's not my kind of novel, but he tells me it's well done and, of course, of great interest to a descendant of the Warrior Kumagai.

Donald Richie is well known for his skill and expertise in writing on Japan and his other books are recommended as well. I found the book hard to put down. Also I suspect the book will primarily appeal to males.

Start by marking Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai: A Historical Novel as Want to Read . Really enjoyed this book for its historical detail and alternative readings to the various battles of the Gempei Wars of 1180-1185.

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This book is a fictionalized version of Kumagai’s own attempt to come to terms with his past-that real past which is his and that other past which he hears the monks inventing as they compose the text which will eventually become The Heiké Story. As the warrior remembers his past and compares it to its fictional parallel, he evokes the wonders.

Kumagai Naozane was a Japanese warrior famous for having taken the head of the young and handsome samurai .

Kumagai Naozane was a Japanese warrior famous for having taken the head of the young and handsome samurai Atsumori. This episode has become one of the best-known and best-loved stories in the Japanese historical classic, The Heiké Story (Heike Monogatari). This book is a fictionalized version of Kumagai’s own attempt to come to terms with his past-that real past which is his and that other past which he hears the monks inventing as they compose the text which will eventually become The Heiké Story.

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Donald Richie is the author of the definitive books in English on Kurosawa and Oz. His works include The Inland Sea, Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai, The Films of Akira Kurosawa, and Zen Inklings.

He has also served as film critic for the Japan Times and as curator of film at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He died on February 19, 2013 at the age of 88.

A tour de force combining a commanding mastery of historical fact and detail, a comprehensive understanding of the human spirit, and a poetic quality of expression that transforms the hearts of all those it touches. The Japan Foundation NewsletterKumagai Naozane was a Japanese warrior famous for having taken the head of the young and handsome samurai Atsumori. This episode has become one of the best-known and best-loved stories in the Japanese historical classic, The Heiké Story (Heike Monogatari). This book is a fictionalized version of Kumagais own attempt to come to terms with his pastthat real past which is his and that other past which he hears the monks inventing as they compose the text which will eventually become The Heiké Story.As the warrior remembers his past and compares it to its fictional parallel, he evokes the wonders of the city of Heiankyo (Kyoto); the wars which raised the Taira (Heike) clan to power and later reduced it to ruin at the hands of the Genji clan; the battles at the Uji River; life in the imperial court of the retired emperor Go-Shirakawa; and the celebrated final Taira battlethe naval encounter at Dannoura, where the infant emperor Antoku was delivered to the depths of the sea. Among the many pleasures of this brilliantly colored chronicle is how the common humanity of this honest, hopeless man transcends his time and milieu to speak to us, here and now.

SadLendy

A man, at the end of his long life, looks back at it and reflects on it. Popularly but erroniously seen as a romantic/tragic figure, he tells the truth of his life, and in so doing gives the reader an incomparable view of early medieval Japan (Kamakura period), the evolution of Japan from an aristocratic to martial society and makes one reflect on what we believe to be history. This is the saga of a peasant boy who rises to being almost a general, and the tale of how an incredibly cynical man becomes a Buddhist. Well written, fascinating to read, impeccably researched and very accurate. Not an 'action story', but the book has some excellent battle scenes. The only book I could compare it to is Bernard Cornwall's retelling of the Arthurian legends - the "Winter King" trilogy. Donald Richie is well known for his skill and expertise in writing on Japan and his other books are recommended as well.
I found the book hard to put down. In reading my review please bear in mind that I have a tremendous interest in Japanese history (lived there, speak some Japanese) so I'm guessing when I say I think it would appeal to anyone who would like to read such a warrior's tale. Also I suspect the book will primarily appeal to males.

Oghmaghma

I bought this for my son because it is about an ancestor of our family in Japan. It's not my kind of novel, but he tells me it's well done and, of course, of great interest to a descendant of the Warrior Kumagai.

Madi

This is a historical novel that was constructed mainly on the basis of Kumagai's memoirs. This work depicts in detail one of the most important socio-political transition of Japan and its society (the Kamakura shogunate establishment) that took place thanks to the elimination of the Taira clan during the Genpei war (1180 - 1185 AD). The famous samurai code with its rules and the emphasis of the loyalty to the lord have their roots in these events. I really do not like Kumagai, who is a central character of this book, because he was not the warrior of honour. He was a very lucky, materialistic man with a ''highly flexible'' morality who killed his opponents in combat mainly due to the fact that he was able to achieve the berserker-like state very fast and sustain it long enough.