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.
@mcfate thought so, bought a 2nd hand copy for $3 a while back. It's 600+ pages, really interesting
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.
@b4cks4w
My copy of "Musashi" is just one gigantic volume.