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Gunki monogatari (軍記物語, Military chronicle-tale), or "war tales", is a category of Japanese literature written primarily in the Kamakura and Muromachi periods that focus on wars and conflicts, especially the civil wars that took place between 1156 and 1568. Examples of this genre include the Hōgen Monogatari and the Heiji Monogatari. The most well known gunki monogatari is Heike Monogatari.
Gunkimonogatari (軍記物語, Military chronicle-tale), or "war tales", is a category of Japanese literature written primarily in the Kamakura and Muromachi...
The Tale of Heiji (平治物語, Heiji monogatari) is a Japanese war epic (gunkimonogatari) detailing the events of the Heiji Rebellion of 1159–1160, in which...
Monogatari (Japanese: 物語, [monoɡaꜜtaɾi]) is a literary form in traditional Japanese literature – an extended prose narrative tale comparable to epic literature...
monogatari, as well as the related gunkimonogatari and earlier Six National Histories, as literal and chronological historical accounts. Monogatari is...
variety of genres and literary forms developed accordingly, such as the gunkimonogatari and otogi-zōshi prose narratives, and renga linked verse, as well as...
biographies of eminent persons and personalities, and the military tale or gunkimonogatari. This last form evolved from an interest in recording the activities...
(太平記) (Chronicle of Great Peace) is a Japanese historical epic (see gunkimonogatari) written in the late 14th century and covers the period from 1319 to...
influence of Chinese novel styles, Japanese traditional war chronicles gunkimonogatari, Buddhist tales, and Jitsurokumono based on social incidents promoted...
The Gikeiki (義経記), "The Chronicle of Yoshitsune", is a Japanese gunkimonogatari ("war-tale") that focuses on the legends of Minamoto no Yoshitsune and...
have been the subject for legends, folk tales, dramatic stories (i.e. gunkimonogatari), theatre productions in kabuki and noh, in literature, movies, animated...
literature. Carl Steenstrup noted that 13th- and 14th-century writings (gunkimonogatari) "portrayed the bushi in their natural element, war, eulogizing such...
written as Soga Monogatari Zue (The Tale of the Soga brothers in pictures). It is regarded by some as the last of the gunkimonogatari or great "war tales"...
A great number of historical tales called rekishi monogatari and war tales called gunkimonogatari appeared, and works such as the shikyō "four mirrors"...
have been called "Raigo-nezumi." According to the military chronicle (Gunkimonogatari) Taiheiki, the grudges of Raigō turned into 84,000 rats with stone...
Together with the Tale of Hōgen and the Tale of Heike, these war stories (gunkimonogatari) describe the rise and fall of the Minamoto and Taira samurai clans...
(平家剣巻 "Heike Sword Scroll"), also called Heike Monogatari Tsuruginomaki (平家物語剣巻) is a Japanese gunkimonogatari. Passed down in top secret among the biwa hōshi—blind...
of Ryūkyū from the view point of Ryūkyū. It followed the style of gunkimonogatari (war tales) and extensively copied the Tale of the Heike, the Tale...
Heike Monogatari written in the 13th century, mentions a failed invasion of Cape Suno, in what was then Awa Province. Minamoto no Yoshitsune's gunki monogatari...
According to Japanese sources such as the Chōsen seibatsuki and Chōsen gunkimonogatari series (tales from the Joseon war) published during the mid-17th century...
gave him a sword, and his domain was increased to 1,800 koku. In the gunkimonogatari Namba Senki that first appeared in Yukimura, Munetsugu did not know...
the Genpei War. The Heike Monogatari is one of the longest and most beautifully composed of the genre called gunkimonogatari, or war chronicles. Clearly...
clan, a powerful clan based in Awa Province. Minamoto no Yoshitsune's gunkimonogatari war tale, the Gikeiki mentions the landing of a boat party on Cape...
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