Talk:The Tale of the Heike

I would like to know who started this book

Author?

As far as I am aware, it is an anonymous work, an epic and classical piece not unlike Beowulf, the Bible, or the Odyssey & Iliad (many believe that Homer was a pseudonym, or even a group of people, not a single individual). Much like, to take an example, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, the Tale of the Heike was passed down orally through many generations before it was set down into a permanent written/painted form. So, even if we did know who wrote it the first time - and this may or may not be known, I'm not sure - it barely even matters. Whoever it was simply wrote down what he heard or knew, the story that had been passed down for hundreds of years.

LordAmeth 03:34, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Well, I can apport some knowledge about this: the final version of this compilation ( "monogatari"= stories) made by a lot of "biwas" dates of 1371. It is believed ( a budist monk called Yoshida Kenkoo wrote this in his book [ sorry, I don't know the translation in English, I'm spanish and I do all I can]) that Yukinaga did this last version, fixing all the other works, and he showed it to the musician Shobutsu, the "biwa". If you want some more information, you can ask me in this e-mail: brisk_90@hotmail.com (I was registered a long time ago in es.wikipedia.org , not in the english page) I'm doing this because I really enjoyed this book in my youth, ( now, I'm 18, lol) and I'm proud of keeping in my room a great edition of this book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.27.16.94 (talk) 22:29, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I continued my work with the auctory, just because I saw questions about it and I consider it can be an interesting point in this article. Please, if there is some one who can check all of this: - References: I can apport the edition of the book I've used to do this, but it'll be a problem to identify since I'm spanish. "Heike Monogatari" - Gredos Editorial ( www.editorialgredos.com) CODE: M. 7543-20006 / ISBN 84-249-2787-7 [ I would put it, but I don't know how XD] - The title of Yoshida Kenkou's work... I'm not really sure what's the real title, I can assure that's the japanese name, but I can't assure that the translation I did is the adapted for that book in USA/ UK..., I leave the spanish title, it may be helpfull: "Ocurrencias de un ocioso". - I could have comitted some grammar or ortographic mistakes, I encourage everybody to correct them. - The beginning of summary section contains a paragraph about the most famous edition that could be perfectly included in the authorship section I did.

Greetings, remember if you need to contact me for any reason, I leave my mail here: Brisk_90@hotmail.com

Thanks for your hard work. I have cleaned up your language a bit; I hope I have not changed the meaning too much. Keep up the good work! LordAmeth (talk) 00:24, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Really thanks for checking it! Yes, it's ok now :-) ( as you can see, I've registered myself.) If you want me to keep improving this, just say it, I have plenty material about this :-)