Continuing with your East Asian focus, how about The Tale of the Heike? Helen McCullough has a translation. It's the locus classicus for lots of images, legends, etc., from Japanese literary tradition.

I have to confess I haven't read the whole thing. I've read bits and pieces of it. I can't guarantee that it wouldn't get tiresome overall. However, some bits are marvelous. Plus, it's got an interesting history as a text, because it started out as an orally transmitted epic, sung by blind itinerant monks. You can see some of the orality in things like descriptions of the heros getting geared up for battle.