I'm really adoring "The Heike Story", but one thing that's vexing me is that every episode has a little interlude of an actual biwa-accompanied recitation relevant to the episode's events from the Heike Monogatari, but there are no subtitles for JUST THAT ONE PART and I can't follow the (rather medieval) Japanese well enough.
This is a terrific anime, really well-done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OQpRQ8syqw
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Yoshikawa is good fictionalizer. I've got his books on Miyamoto Musashi and Taira no Masakado in the stack.
I finished the Penguin translation of "The Tale of the Heike" a month or two ago.