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...

famous uses is for reciting The Tale of the Heike, a war chronicle from the Kamakura period (1185–1333). In previous centuries, the predominant biwa musicians...

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...

in The Tale of the Heike. On May 12, 1179, a great whirlwind swept through the capital. Many people died along with many buildings destroyed by the tornado...

part of the conflict that led to the first shogunate. Her story in the Tale of the Heike influenced several generations of samurai. Tomoe is often celebrated...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

career as an imperial officer. The Genpei War is also the subject of the early Japanese epic The Tale of the Heike (Heike Monogatari). Even within royalty...

Shin Heike Monogatari (新・平家物語, lit. "New Tale of the Heike") is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It is based on a prose version by Eiji...

Japanese lute). He was particularly good at performing The Tale of the Heike, an epic describing the fall of Emperor Antoku, who is buried at Amidaji Temple...

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...

his appearance as the main character in the third section of the Japanese literary classic Heike Monogatari (Tale of the Heike). The Japanese term for...

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...

became the representative pillar of the Taira clan. According to The Tale of the Heike, Taira no Tokiko drowned herself during the Battle of Dan-no-ura...

rival during the Genpei War between the Minamoto and the Taira clans. In The Tale of the Heike, he is known as Asahi Shogun (朝日将軍). His dharma name was...

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...

loosely based on The Tale of the Heike. A sequel, Genji: Days of the Blade, was released for PlayStation 3. The story follows the adventures of Minamoto Yoshitsune...