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...
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works of Japanese fiction, such as the Genji Monogatari and the Heike Monogatari, are in the monogatari form. The form was prominent around the 9th to...
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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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Shin Heike Monogatari (新平家物語, lit. "New Tale of the Heike") may refer to: Shin Heike Monogatari (novel), a novel by Eiji Yoshikawa, translated into English...
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The Heike Story (Japanese: 平家物語, Hepburn: Heike Monogatari) is a Japanese original net animation series adapted from Hideo Furukawa's 2016 translation...
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Eiji Yoshikawa (section Shin Heike monogatari, translated as The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Tale of Love and War)
no Masakado) 47–62 (in sixteen volumes) – 新平家物語 (Shin Heike monogatari) – New Tale of the Heike 63–70 (in eight volumes) – 私本太平記 (Shihon Taihei ki) –...
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military arts ("bu" 武), and is mentioned in the Heike Monogatari (late 12th century). The Heike Monogatari makes reference to the educated poet-swordsman...
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Naozane. Atsumori's death is portrayed tragically in the Heike monogatari (Tale of the Heike), from which this and many other works stem. Atsumori, roughly...
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Taira clan (redirect from Heike clan)
Dan-no-ura, the last battle of the Genpei War. This story is told in the Heike Monogatari. This branch of the Kanmu Heishi had many collateral branches, including...
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Shin Heike Monogatari (新・平家物語) is a 1972 Japanese television series. It is the tenth NHK taiga drama. Average viewership rating: 24.1%. Highest viewership...
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Biwa hōshi (section Development of the heike style)
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 is one of Japan's...
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make prayers that nothing disastrous would happen. The monster in the Heike Monogatari, in the end, was merely "something that cries with the voice of a nue...
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Rekishi monogatari (歴史物語) is a category of Japanese literature defined as extended prose narrative. Structurally, the name is composed of the Japanese...
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Tesso (section Heike Monogatari)
Enkyōhon (延慶本, alternatively read Enkeihon), a yomihon version of the Heike Monogatari, or Mii-dera-nezumi (三井寺鼠) derived from Mii-dera in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture...
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The Tale of Heiji (redirect from Heiji Monogatari)
the Hōgen monogatari (1156), the Heiji monagatari (1159–1160), and the Heike monogatari (1180–1185). In each of these familiar monogatari, the central...
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this genre include the Hōgen Monogatari and the Heiji Monogatari. The most well known gunki monogatari is Heike Monogatari. Unlike their Heian counterparts...
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Group. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-313-30296-1. McCullough, Helen Craig (1988). Heike Monogatari. Stanford University Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-8047-1803-5. Turnbull...
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(age 8 Japanese style) on the orders of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (see Heike Monogatari, Book XII, Chapter 14) Giō, a Shirabyoshi dancer who won the heart...
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for his actions at the Battle of Yashima in 1185. According to the Heike Monogatari, the enemy Taira placed a fan atop a pole on one of their ships, daring...
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Since she, like many others, are featured largely in the Heike Monogatari (Tale of Heike), Gikeiki (Chronicle of Yoshitsune), and a number of plays...
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a location in the Japanese literary classics Ise Monogatari, Genji Monogatari, and Heike Monogatari. Suma is often referred to as an utamakura or meisho...
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Kamakura period epic, the Tale of Heike. The Daiei Film production of Kenji Mizoguchi's 1955 film Shin Heike Monogatari (variously translated as Taira Clan...
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appearance in the eleventh chapter of the fictionalized epic Heike Monogatari (The Tale of Heike) during the Battle of Yashima, in the section called "The...
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person's name or a nickname. It is for example a female character in the Heike Monogatari and daimyō Kōriki Kiyonaga's nickname. The term is also sometimes used...
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Heike Tsuruginomaki (平家剣巻 "Heike Sword Scroll"), also called Heike Monogatari Tsuruginomaki (平家物語剣巻) is a Japanese gunki monogatari. Passed down in top...
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as the Genpei War. The Heike Monogatari is one of the longest and most beautifully composed of the genre called gunki monogatari, or war chronicles. Clearly...
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The Tale of Hōgen (redirect from Hōgen Monogatari)
the Hōgen monogatari (1156), the Heiji monagatari (1159–1160), and the Heike monogatari (1180–1185). In each of these familiar monogatari, the central...
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as the blind itinerant lute player (biwa hōshi) who gave the epic Heike Monogatari its present form. Little is known about his early life, but Kakuichi...
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from following. Three warrior monks in particular are named in the Heike Monogatari: Gochi-in no Tajima, Tsutsui Jōmyō Meishū, and Ichirai Hōshi. These...
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Genpei War (section Taira Clan (also known as "Heike"))
stories and works of art depict this conflict. The Tale of the Heike (平家物語, Heike Monogatari) is the most famous, although many kabuki and bunraku plays...
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