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The great Japanese epic chronicling the rise and catastrophic fall of the Taira clan in the wars that reshaped medieval Japan. Suffused with the Buddhist sense of impermanence and the fleeting nature of glory, it became the central war tale of Japanese tradition, recited for centuries by chanting monks.
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