In the canon
The Tale of the Heike
Anonymous
- Form
- Form Epic Poem
- Year
- Year 1330
- Originally in
- Originally in Japanese
- Pages
- Pages 700
Blind monks carried this story from village to village for centuries, plucking a biwa and chanting the fall of a family that had believed the world was its own. It opens on the sound of temple bells, which say what they have always said: the proud do not last, they are a dream on a spring night, dust before the wind.
the proud ones are but for a moment, like an evening dream in springtime.
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