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    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") may refer to: Shin Heike Monogatari (novel), a novel by Eiji Yoshikawa, translated into English...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • (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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    is also the subject of the early Japanese epic The Tale of the Heike (Heike Monogatari). Even within royalty there was a distinction between princes with...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • Gikeiki (category Monogatari)
    folk hero is shaped. It seems clearly to have intended to supplement Heike Monogatari and other tales of the war. Thought to have been written during the...
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    Jidai Bunko (Eiji Yoshikawa's Historical Fiction), Vols. 47–62 Shin Heike monogatari (新平家物語). Tokyo: Kodansha. ISBN 4-06-196577-8. Wikimedia Commons has...
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