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The Heike: from Defeat at Dannoura to a Golden age in Ryukyu?

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Shunzo Sakamaki
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , November 1967 , pp. 115 - 122
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9 For instance, according to the Azuma kagami, in an item dated Genreki 2/4/4 (May 5, 1185): “Last night Yoshitsune's messenger came in great haste to Kyoto to report the complete destruction of the Heike.” Shinoda, Minoru, The Founding of the Ramatura Shogunate, 1180–1185, with Selected Translations from the Azuma Kagami (385 pp., Columbia University Press, 1960), 302.Google Scholar

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