This is from the preface of The Tale of the Heike, and it reads:
It was like a dream on a spring night; the strong and domineering rule was eventually wiped out, and it was like the dust rising in front of the wind.
Far from the history of foreign countries, Qin's Zhao Gao, Han's Wang Mang, Liang's Zhu Yi, Tang's An Lushan, all because they do not abide by the law of the late king, the extreme luxury, do not listen to the admonition, do not realize the signs of the world's chaos, do not sympathize with the people's plight, and so soon after the death.
Looking at the examples of the present dynasty, Chengping's Ping Shogun, Tenkei's Fujiwara Chunyou, Kanghe's Yuan Yizin, and Heiji's Fujiwara Trust, etc., each of them has the heart of extravagance and the behavior of the strongest beams; and as for the recent Rokubo Rudenji, the former Minister of Taijutsu, Heikei Mori. The former Minister of Taijutsu, Mr. Taira Kiyomori, whose deeds, rumored by the press, are hard to imagine and cannot be described by words.
Expanded information:
The Tale of the Heike is the pinnacle of Japanese classical literature, comparable to The Tale of Genji, and centers on the glory and decline of the Heike clan, the progenitor of the Japanese martial arts family. It centers on the glory and decline of the Heike family, the originator of Japanese martial arts politics, and brilliantly recreates the rise, fall, and flow of the human world in the Middle Ages of Japan.
The Tale of the Heike is a long novel written in the early 13th century by Shinano Maeji Gyosho.
Modern Japanese literary giant Eiji Yoshikawa rewrote the epic masterpiece "The Tale of the Heike", one of the two jewels of Japanese classical literature and known as "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in a modern literary style,
The Tale of the Heike is the first book in the world to be published by the Japanese government in the early 13th century, and it is one of the most famous novels in the world.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Works of Eiji Yoshikawa: The Tale of the New Heike1