《平家物语》是十三世纪初日本镰仓时代的一部长篇历史小说。它记述的是公元一一五六至一一八五年日本两大武士集团源氏和平氏争夺权力的角逐。由于它反映的是日本社会由奴隶制向封建制转变时期的历史面貌,记述的是重大的历史事件,加以文词生动,雅俗共赏,又有弹琵琶的艺人到处说唱,后来出现的能乐、净琉璃、歌舞伎等剧种又多选取其中故事编为台本,所以这部作品流传非常广 “Pingtang Monogatari” is a long historical novels of the early Kamakura period in Japan in the early thirteenth century. It chronicles the race between Genji and Pinch of Japan’s two major warrior groups in the period from 1561 to 1985. Because it reflects the history of Japanese society during the transition from slavery to feudalism, it accounts for major historical events, vivid words and elegant tastes, as well as rap entertainers everywhere. Later entertainments, net glazes , Kabuki and other operas have selected more of these stories compiled for the Taiwan, so this work is very widely circulated