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The name "Genpei" comes from alternate readings of the kanji "Minamoto" (源 Gen) and "Taira" (平 Hei). 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]
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.
Robert Taira founded the company, then called Robert's Bakery, in Hilo, Hawaii, in 1950. [1] [2] Taira originally specialized in baking cakes.He got his big break when he figured out how to extend the notoriously short shelf life of Portuguese sweet bread, which he could then sell in large volumes to supermarkets as shelf-stable "Hawaiian bread". [1]
The Taira warrior family sowed the seeds of their own destruction with acts of arrogance and pride that led to their defeat in 1185 at the hands of the revitalized Minamoto, and the first establishment of samurai government (Kamakura shogunnate). [10] The story is episodic in nature and designed to be told in a series of nightly instalments.
Taira initially specialized in baking fine cakes, while exploring other baked goods in his spare time. Like many children in Hawaii, Taira had enjoyed Portuguese sweet bread while growing up, but knew it was derisively called "stone bread" because of its notorious tendency to turn hard as a rock within one day. This meant it had to be purchased ...
Taira no Yoshifumi (平 良文) was a samurai and military lord of the Heian period. Called the "father of Musashi Plain development," the eight Taira clans of East Japan are said to have descended from him.
Taira no Tadamori, father of Taira no Kiyomori. Consolidated the influence of the Taira clan and helped them gain Imperial favor. Retired Emperor Takakura, son of Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa and father of Emperor Antoku. Took Kenreimon-In, a member of the Taira family, as his imperial consort. His mother was also a member of the Taira family.
List of Kuge families include the high level bureaucrats and nobles in the Japanese Imperial court. [1] This list is based on the lineage of the family (the clan from which the family derives, such as the Minamoto, Fujiwara, or Taira) and the kakaku (家格 [], rank).