About this episode

This episode discusses the depiction of characters in the Taiheiki and the downfall of the Hojo.

This week: how does the Taiheiki depict its most famous characters? How does it describe the downfall of the Hojo? And from that, what can we say about the charge that it's purely derivative from a more famous text? Show notes here .

People in this episode

Host: Isaac Meyer

Topics covered

• Taiheiki
• Hojo downfall
• Japanese literature
• historical characters
• derivative texts

Keywords

• Taiheiki
• Hojo
• Japanese history
• literature analysis
• historical narrative

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hojo

Books & works: Taiheiki

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