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...
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Taira clan (redirect from Heike clan)
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...
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Biwa (section Heike-biwa)
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...
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Heikegani (redirect from Heike crab)
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...
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Tomoe Gozen (category People of the Genpei War)
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...
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Taira no Shigemori (category People of Heian-period Japan)
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...
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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...
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Biwa hōshi (section Development of the heike style)
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...
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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...
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along with selections from The Tale of the Heike, translated by Helen Craig McCullough for Stanford University Press. The Tyler Genji (2001) – Tyler's...
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Eiji Yoshikawa (category Recipients of the Order of Culture)
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...
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Benkei (category People of the Genpei War)
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...
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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...
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Emperor Antoku (redirect from Emperor Antoku of Japan)
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...
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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...
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Kusanagi no Tsurugi (category Ancient swords of Japan)
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...
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Taira no Tokuko (category People of Heian-period Japan)
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...
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Tsuchigumo (section Tsuchigumo of the Katsuragi)
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...
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Taira no Kiyomori (category People of the Genpei War)
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...
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Monogatari (category Culture of Japan)
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...
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Minamoto (clan) (redirect from The Minamoto)
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...
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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...
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Taira no Atsumori (category People of the Genpei War)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Taira no Tokiko (category Ladies-in-waiting of Heian-period Japan)
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...
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Minamoto no Yoshinaka (category People of the Genpei War)
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...
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The Genpei Jōsuiki, also known as the Genpei Seisuiki (源平盛衰記), is a 48-book extended version of the Heike Monogatari (The Tale of the Heike). translations...
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Onna-musha (category Women in the military)
the late-Heian period. The epic The Tale of the Heike was composed in the early 13th century in order to commemorate the stories of courageous and devoted...
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Minamoto no Yoshitsune (category People of the Genpei War)
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...
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