The Tale of the Heike (平家物語, Heike Monogatari) is an epic account compiled prior to 1330 of the struggle between the Taira clan and Minamoto clan for control...

family". The clan is the namesake of The Tale of the Heike, an epic account of the Genpei War. Along with the Minamoto, Taira was one of the honorary...

the Heike. It is believed that these crabs are reincarnations of the Heike warriors defeated at the naval Battle of Dan-no-ura as told in The Tale of...

sometimes referred to as "Heike" Heike crab, a species of crab named after the Taira (Heike) clan Heike Ondo, a Japanese folk song Heike Shamisen, a Japanese...

appeared in The Tale of the Heike, one of the traditional classics in medieval Japan. On May 12, 1179, a great whirlwind swept through the imperial capital...

list of the characters that appear in The Tale of the Heike. Contents A B F G H K M N R S T Y External links Ario, a loyal page boy in the service of Shunkan...

samurai, mentioned in The Tale of the Heike. There is doubt as to whether she existed as she doesn't appear in any primary accounts of the Genpei war. She only...

reciting The Tale of the Heike, a children's fable of the Princess Biwa Breb from the Kamakura period (1185–1333). In previous centuries, the predominant...

became the caretakers of The Tale of the Heike (平家物語, Heike Monogatari). The biwa hōshi are considered the first performers of the Tale of the Heike, which...

The earliest records of Benkei are in the Azuma Kagami, The Tale of the Heike, and the Genpei Jōsuiki—all sources from around a century or more after...

revisions of older classics. He was mainly influenced by classics such as The Tale of the Heike, Tale of Genji, Water Margin and Romance of the Three Kingdoms...

into modern Japanese of The Tale of the Heike, a 13th-century historical epic depicting the rise and fall of the Taira clan. The series was produced by...

Yamada animated series The Heike Story portray this battle. Shimonoseki The Tale of the Heike Sansom, George (1958). A History of Japan to 1334. Stanford...

along with selections from The Tale of the Heike, translated by Helen Craig McCullough for Stanford University Press. The Tyler Genji (2001) – Tyler's...

and tales. The story of Emperor Antoku and his mother's family became the subject of the Kamakura period epic poem The Tale of the Heike (Heike is an...

the only survivor, Matsuoka. In The Tale of the Heike, a collection of oral stories transcribed in 1371, the sword is lost at sea after the defeat of...

1118 as the first son of Taira no Tadamori. His mother, Gion no Nyogo, was wife of Tadamori and a palace servant according to The Tale of the Heike. Father:...

his early death at the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani and his appearance in the epic The Tale of the Heike, in which he was killed by the remorseful warrior Kumagai...

The Tale of the Heike, Then Gochi-in Tajima, throwing away the sheath of his long naginata, strode forth alone on to the bridge, whereupon the Heike straightaway...

mentioned in the epic poem The Tale of the Heike. A member of the Minamoto clan, he was a cousin and rival of shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo during the Genpei...

commonly cited early text depicting the yōkai tsuchigumo is The Tale of the Heike, or rather some variant texts of the Heike. This work, which was passed down...

Science SARU. Based upon the novel Tales of the Heike: Inu-Oh by Hideo Furukawa, the film is set in 14th century Japan and centers on the friendship between...

Gikeiki (The Tale of Yoshitsune) Heiji Monogatari (The Tale of Heiji) Heike Monogatari (The Tale of the Heike) Hōgen Monogatari (The Tale of Hōgen) Soga...

209. Kitagawa, Hiroshi. (1975). The Tale of the Heike, p. 298 Brown, p. 321; Kitagawa, H. (1975). The Tale of the Heike, p.783. Kitagawa, p. 783. Titsingh...

al. (1975). The Tale of the Heike, pp. 652-678; Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 211-212. The Tales of the Heike. Translated...

dagger. According to The Tale of the Heike: And loosing off his twenty-four arrows like lightning flashes he slew twelve of the Heike soldiers and wounded...

Koreyoshi. Saburo, feared by many as the "descendent of a giant serpent", also appears in the Tale of the Heike and is said to have contributed greatly...

University of Hawaii Press. pp. 201–216. ISBN 978-0-8248-1590-5. Kitagawa, H. (1975). The Tale of the Heike, p. 222. Brown, p. 290. Compare Precepts of Tokugawa...

drawing much of his subjects from war tales such as Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari) and The rise and fall of the Minamoto and the Taira (Genpei...

translator of Japanese literature. Major works include English translations of The Tale of the Heike (平家物語, Heike Monogatari) which won the 2012 Lois Roth...