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The anime The Heike Story is a work that has the potential to become a new Japanese treasure." [13] Following the conclusion of its streaming release, The Heike Story was named one of the best series of 2021 by Anime News Network, [14] [15] [16] Paste Magazine, [17] Comic Book Resources, [18] /Film, [19] the editorial staff of Crunchyroll, [20 ...
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 of Japan at the end of the 12th century in the Genpei War (1180–1185). It has been translated into English at least five times. The first translation was by Arthur Lindsay Sadler ...
In the Heike monogatari and many works derived from it, this is focused upon as a particularly tragic episode. Atsumori is also, like many of his Taira brethren, portrayed as a courtier and poet, not truly prepared for battle. He is said to have carried a flute into battle, evidence of his peaceful, courtly nature as well as his youth and ...
He was a member of the Taira clan (Heike) who fought in the Genpei War against the Minamoto (Genji). He is mostly known for 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 Naozane. He is also the subject of the famous Noh play Atsumori.
"Vice-Commander", a nickname given to Taira no Yoshimune a.k.a. Taira no Nobumune by his father), son of Taira no Munemori, beheaded at age 7 (age 8 Japanese style) on the orders of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (see Heike Monogatari, Book XII, Chapter 14)
The clan is commonly referred to as Heishi (平氏, "Taira clan") or Heike (平家, "House of Taira"), using the character's On'yomi hei (平) for Taira, while shi (氏) means "clan", and ke (家) is used as a suffix for "extended family". [3] The clan is the namesake of The Tale of the Heike, an epic account of the Genpei War.
The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 0-86008-189-3. Yoshikawa, Eiji. (1956). The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Tale of Love and War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ASIN B0007BR0W8 (cloth). _____. (1981). The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Tale of Love and War. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing.
Taira no Kiyomori is the main character in the 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 Saga, Tales of the Taira Clan, and The Sacrilegious Hero) credits its story as "from the novel by Yoshikawa Eiji", which in turn is a 1950 retelling of the 14th-century epic The Tale of the Heike.