In this book, you read Kiyomori Taira in his prime, aged between forty and fifty. He had eliminated his military rival, Yoshitomo Minamoto. Yoshitomo's beautiful mistress, Tokiwa, turned herself in at Rokuhara. Kiyomori pardoned her little boys from the death penalty. Kiyomori fell in love with Tokiwa, and Tokiwa loved him. Nevertheless, Kiyomori only visited her once at home. Tokiwa married a nobleman and overcame Konnomaru's accusation of infidelity to her husband.
Kiyomori showed not only his military but also his political qualities. The most powerful politician in Japan, Goshirakawa, saw his politics as safe only with Kiyomori's army in the background. Goshirakawa deliberately tied Kiyomori to his side. Kiyomori used the favorable situation to support the political upswing of Taira. Kiyomori's brothers, sons, and tribe members occupied essential positions in the state. Goshirakawa appointed him to the highest office of a subject, prime minister. Goshirakawa married Shigeko, Kiyomori's sister-in-law. She
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Höhe: 190 mm
Breite: 120 mm
Dicke: 33 mm
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978-3-7693-1902-6 (9783769319026)
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Eiji Yoshikawa (1892 - 1962) is one of Japan's best-known writer as of popular literature. He wrote novels about historical characters and themes from an early age. From 1935 to 1939, he published the serial novel Miyamoto Musashi in a weekly newspaper. Japanese read no other serial novel as widely as Miyamoto Musashi. His literary portrayal of the famous swordsman resonated strongly with the Japanese suffering under the miserable circumstances of the Second World War. As renowned literature novel, Miyamoto Musashi was a great success. Eiji Yoshikawa was very disappointed by the defeat of the Second World War and the unimaginable destruction of Japan and was unable to write for several years. He only began writing the great novel Shin Heike Monogatari, The New Tale of Taira, in 1950 and completed it after 7 years. In this novel, which Shukan Asahi published as a newspaper series, Eiji Yoshikawa interpreted the classic novel The Tale of The Heike from a new perspective. The Taira tribe perishes in the power st
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Yutaka Hayauchi was born in Masuda, Japan, in 1951 and attended school there until high school. At 18, he began studying chemistry at the University of Osaka, Japan. At the age of 20, he moved to Hamburg and studied chemistry at the University of Hamburg, where he also obtained a doctorate in organic chemistry after graduating. During his studies, he worked as a translator for scientific literature and patent specifications, an interpreter for business negotiations, and a simultaneous interpreter for congresses. In 1984, he joined Bayer AG in Leverkusen as a chemist with a doctorate, was responsible for drug approval for Bayer in Japan (1988 to 1991). He worked in various development laboratories for new drugs in Leverkusen and Wuppertal until his retirement (1991 to 2016). He is married, has two daughters, and lives in Leverkusen. He has been a German citizen since 1998.
Yutaka Hayauchi became acquainted with Eiji Yoshikawa's novel The New Tale of Taira when he lived with his family in Kyoto. Even as a schoo
