India in a Japanese Historical Classic - The Heike Monogatari: With a Focus on Indology and Buddhism. This book examines various curious elements in relation to India that are found in the Heike Monogatari, the great early thirteenth century Japanese historical classic. Indian-related referencs include a wide range of disciplines such as iconography and art history, palaeography, mythology, philosophy and even the legends of Indian and Far Eastern Buddhism. The book addresses the Indogists, the Buddhologists and the Asian scholars alike, and explains some unravelled mysteries of oriental culture in general and Indian culture in particular. With bibliographic references and index.