"Lesser known to international audiences than the tales of a certain promiscuous Genji, The Tale of The Heike stands equally important to its 11th century predecessor as a fellow foundational text of early Japan. Like The Iliad before it, The Tale of The Heike has been modernized and remodernized in Japan many a time before. Musashi's prolific author Eiji Yoshizawa's Shin Heike Monogatari (literally translating to The New Tale of The Heike, though released in translation with a different subtitle) has made waves."–Metropolis Japan
