This book's opening paragraph mentions the colorful sala flowers portending that the prosperous will decline and  the Gion Shoja bells signaling the impermanence of all things.
The second chapter of this book illustrates how nobody is safe from unforeseen calamity by recounting how the Holy  Teacher Yixing was banished for hitting on the consort Yang Guifei. One section of this book describes an artificial island  whose building stones were inscribed with holy texts, built by a man who dies from an illness so severe that his body boils  water. This book's opening paragraph mentions the colorful sala flowers portending that the prosperous will decline and  the Gion Shoja bells signaling the impermanence of all things. This book's description of a mysterious fire that torched the  Imperial Palace was related in the earlier "An (*) Account of My Hut." Its thirteenth and final chapter, an "Initiates' Book,"  describes how the Empress Kenreimon'in joins a Buddhist convent after her infant son drowns at the Battle of Dan-no-ura. For 10  points, name this account of the Gempei War between the Taira and Minamoto clans, a national epic of Japan.
The second chapter of this book illustrates how nobody is safe from unforeseen calamity by recounting how the Holy  Teacher Yixing was banished for hitting on the consort Yang Guifei.
The Tale of the Heike [or Heike Monogatari]