The Tale of the Heike

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN VOL XLVI.-PART II translation by A.L. Sadler 1918available online: http://e-asia.uoregon.edu link to PDF file: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/ec/e-asia/r... See introductory essay on theories about authorship."...composed sometime before the period Shokyu (1219).""The oldest known manuscript of it is one of the period Enkei (1308-11)..."