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Prince Mochihito (以仁王, Mochihito-ō) (died June 1180), also known as the Takakura Prince, and as Minamoto no Mochimitsu (源 以光), was a son of Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan. He is noted for his role in starting the Genpei War .
8-4, Ltd. (Japanese: 有限会社ハチノヨン, Hepburn: Yūgen Gaisha Hachi no Yon) is a Japanese video game localization company based in Shibuya, Tokyo. [1] The company was founded in 2005 by Hiroko Minamoto and former Electronic Gaming Monthly ( EGM ) editor John Ricciardi.
Nasu no Yoichi (那須 与一, Nasu no Yoichi) (c. 1169 – c. 1232) was a samurai who fought alongside the Minamoto clan in the Genpei War.He is particularly famous for his actions at the Battle of Yashima in 1185.
The Seiwa Genji (清和源氏) is a line of the Japanese Minamoto clan that is descended from Emperor Seiwa, which is the most successful and powerful line of the clan.Many of the most famous Minamoto members, including Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Minamoto no Yoritomo, the founder of the Kamakura shogunate; and Ashikaga Takauji, the founder of the Ashikaga shogunate, belonged to this line.
Date Tomomune, founder of the Date clan. The Date family was founded in the early Kamakura period (1185–1333) by Isa Tomomune who originally came from the Isa district of Hitachi Province (now Ibaraki Prefecture), and was a descendant of Fujiwara no Uona (721–783) in the sixteenth generation.
Minamoto no Michitomo (源通具, Minamoto no Michitomo, 1171 - 1227) was a waka poet and Japanese nobleman active in the early Kamakura period. He was the son of Minamoto no Michichika and the foster father of the monk Dōgen. [1] He is designated as a member of the New Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry (新三十六歌仙, Shinsanjūrokkasen).
Minamoto no Makoto (源 信, 810 – February 13, 868) was the seventh son of the Japanese emperor Saga, and was the first courtier to be given the name Minamoto.Initially an honorary name given to a number of unrelated courtiers by a number of different emperors, the Minamoto clan would grow to be an integrated clan family, one of the most powerful and most important in all of Japanese history.
鬼一法眼 [1] [2]) is a legendary Japanese monk and warrior from the 1100s who appeared in "Gikeiki", a military epic about the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, written in the early Muromachi period. [1] [3] Hōgen is a honorific title for a monk, not a name, [1] with Kiichi Hōgen literally meaning "First Demon Priest". [4]