The Great Pacification narrates the wars that occurred around the year 1333 between the military government of the sogún and the supporters of the emperor Godaigo. They are dramatic civil wars between the rude east of the country with its center of Kamakura and the refined west with its center in the old capital Kyoto. On this historical background and an absorbing plot of conspiracies and betrayals, this gallant ideology of samurai is, thanks to the vigor of its style, the vivid characterization of its characters - some elevated to the category of national heroes - and the striking contrast between the Poignant lyricism of certain episodes and the sanguinary brutality of others, an imperishable monument of the Japanese letters. The present Spanish edition, enriched with an enlightening Introduction and useful annexes, is the first from the original Japanese.