Two contradictory thoughts exist in Heike Monogatari. First,it is the idea that royal succession is innuenced by the law of causality, which is inconsistent with the sense of evanescence of life. From the standpoint of work itself, it is the confrontation between history and fiction ; usualness and unusualness ; the center and the limits. From the viewpoint of the formation process, it is the contradiction of consolation of "Mono" and "Mono" that is not consoled. The authority of the temples and the narrators that are subject to the authority of the temples. In other words, these are the written text and the narration. (Heike Monogatari is the first piece of literature in which the written text and the narration meet). Nevertheless, as long as Heike Monogatarii basically belongs to the narrator's point of view, it is the narrator's logic that supports the work from its depths. The historical appearance of the monogatari is made relative from inside the monogatari, so that the places of the two elements, historical facts and fiction, or usualness and unsualness are reversed. It is the structure of Heike Monogatari and the logic of monogatari that perpetually alters the written texts.
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