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	crab - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The term crab is sometimes applied to several different groups of short (nose to tail) decapods with thick exoskeletons, but only members of the Brachyura are true crabs; other taxa, such as hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, king crabs, and horseshoe crabs are, despite superficial similarities, not crabs at all.
		Crabs are a very diverse group, mostly found in salt water, but with some groups living in freshwater or on land.
		The crab louse is the origin of the slang term "crabs" for an infestation of pubic lice.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/crab (362 words)

	Heikegani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Heikegani (平家蟹, ヘイケガニ) is a species of crab native to Japan, with a shell that bears a pattern resembling a human face.
		It is locally believed that these crabs are reincarnations of the spirits of the Heike warriors defeated at the Battle of Dan-no-ura as told in the Heike Monogatari ("The Tale of the Heike").
		The story goes that the crabs with shells resembling Samurai were thrown back, while those not resembling Samurai were eaten, giving the former a greater chance of reproducing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heike_crab (214 words)

	Crab \| Topic Definition \| Find the Meaning and Define the Answer of Crab
		Crabs are a very diverse group, mostly found in salt water, but with some groups living in freshwater or even on land.
		A crab is a type of misapplied stroke in rowing when the oar is pulled round past the oarsman.
		A Crab is a type of scratch turntablists use, involving flickering the crossfader between your thumb and your fingers, starting with the pinky and ending with the index.
	www.thefreeencyclopedia.com /definition/word.aspx?w=Crab (418 words)

	Samurai Crabs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There are crabs to be found here with curious markings on their backs, patterns and indentations that disturbingly resemble the face of a samurai.
		As the generations passed, of crabs and fishermen alike, the crabs with patterns that most resembled a samurai face survived preferentially until eventually there was produced not just a human face, not just a Japanese face, but the visage of a fierce and scowling samurai.
		In the case of the Heike crab it was effected more or less unconsciously by the fishermen, and certainly without any serious contemplation by the crabs.
	cis.poly.edu /~mleung/CS4744/f03/ch06/SamuraiCrabs.htm (809 words)

	The Samurai Crab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Heike crab, a variation of a species of crab found in several other locations in the Pacific Ocean, exists only in the Japan Inland Sea.
		The Heike crabs taste the same as other crabs in the Inland Sea.
		A poem, "Tale of the Heike," describes the defeat and death of Antoku in the Inland Sea.
	members.cox.net /bennowak/environment/envla/samcrab.htm (324 words)

	Crab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The term crab is sometimes applied to several different groups of decapods, but only members of the Brachyura are true crabs; other taxa, such as hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, king crabs, and horseshoe crabs are, despite superficial similarities, not crabs at all.
		---- A crab is a type of misapplied stroke in rowing when the oar is pulled round past the oarsman.
		---- A Crab is a type of scratch turntablists use, involving flickering the crossfader between your thumb and your fingers, starting with the pinky and ending with the index.
	crab.kiwiki.homeip.net (528 words)

	crab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		They are crustaceans with five pairs of legs, the first pair modified to form a pair of pincers, a flattish shell, and a short, broad abdomen folded under its thorax.
		There are two main groups of crabs: the Brachyura or true crabs, and the Paguroidea, or hermit crabs.
		Perfecting crab cakesOrlando Sentinel, FL - 13 hours agoAs a youngster, Tom Douglas knew all about crab cakes: Be gentle, no stirring -- only folding, and the more you work the mixture the tougher they get.
	www.33beat.com /crab.html (441 words)

	Usagi Yojimbo Dojo - Letters - Usagi Yojimbo Volume 3, Issue 16
		The Heike gani or Heike crab (Heikea Japonica) has, on its carapace (shell), the image of a scowling human face.
		According to legend, these crabs are the ghosts of the Heike warriors who died during the sea battle at Dan-no-Ura (DH These small crabs reach a maximum size of 1.2 inches (31 mm) across their backs.
		I've drawn the smaller Heike gani, which are the spirits of the common warriors.
	www.usagiyojimbo.com /casl/letters/volume3/uyletter_16.html (1297 words)

	Heike monogatari
		The medieval Japanese prose narrative Heike monogatari (The Tale of the Heike) follows now the victors, now the vanquished, in an account of a one of the great turning points in Japanese history.
		Since Heike is on every school curriculum, some of the materials are aimed at students, or created with their help.
		A photo of this crab is at the top of this "o-miyage" (souvenir) page from Shimonoseki (the city near the historic battle).
	www.meijigakuin.ac.jp /~watson/heike/heike.html (2041 words)

	Suicide,Seppuku,Samurai, Reicarnation and a ghoststory all in one Related event from history.......
		The Taira are the Heike clan and the Minamoto are the Genji clan.
		The metaphysics of The Tale of the Heike are strictly Buddhist, specifically of the Pure Land sect.
		These Heike Crabs are considered the reincarnation of the Taira clans noble and loyal samurai.
	www.ancientworlds.net /257801 (923 words)

	Chamberlain Studios of Self-Defense - Dallas Aikido - Aikido Dallas - Dallas Martial Arts - Martial Arts Dallas
		The "Tales of the Heike" (Heike Monogatari) is a collection of episodic stories related to the rise and downfall of the Taira clan in twelfth century Kyoto.
		The "Tales of the Heike" seems to have been compiled piecemeal, as stories told about the Gempei battles were polished and elaborated, and exists in several versions.
		And the ghosts of the Taira, led by Tomomori?" For those who have encountered the heroic myths of Yoshitsune, the actual "Tales of the Heike" may come as something of a disappointment, for he is depicted therein as a brave, but utterly pragmatic general, far from the dashing, romantic figure of legend.
	www.dallaskenpo.com /heike_ryu_jiu_jitsu.html (2992 words)

	Yoshitoshi - Kotegara Hanji
		One type of crab caught in the Inland Sea are referred to as Heike crabs.
		Above is the largest example of a crab which I have found.
		When I point out a minor motif in any specific print it is with the intention of focusing the viewer's attention to some of the more subtle elements which I am sure were second nature to the Japanese artist and his audience, but often go unnoticed by our contemporaries.
	www.printsofjapan.com /Yoshitoshi's_Kotegara_Hanji_in_the_rain.htm (424 words)

	EvC Forum: Somewhere between Darwin and Baldwin lies... Lamark? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Perhaps the Heike crab is a good example, where for centuries Japanese fishermen have released crabs whose shell markings are thought to resemble a samurai's face.
		Both the number of such crabs and their likeness to samurai faces have increased; the resemblance-bearing individual crab has increased chances of survival (and reproduction), and, it seems to me, so does the species, since there is now a large subpopulation we will not so readily hunt into extinction.
		It's even possible that multiple crabs independantly developed face-like features on their backs, since, I'm assuming here, all these crabs have some feature and it's really subjective on the part of the fishermen what is face-like.
	www.evcforum.net /cgi-bin/dm.cgi?action=msg&f=11&t=208&m=17 (535 words)

	The Samurai Crab Solution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1185, the emperor of Japan, seven-year-old Antoku, was involved in a long bloody battle between the Heike and the Genji.
		Frightened, the fishermen from that time on, threw all the crabs with faces back into the sea where the crabs continued breeding.
		Because the people ate only the crabs without faces, the rejected Heike crabs evolved through natural selection to wear faces distinctly resembling those of Samurai warriors.
	members.cox.net /bennowak/environment/envla/samcrabsol.htm (209 words)

	Purse Crab - Big Purse Guide
		Mud crab, Black fingered mud crab, White-tipped mud crab, Oyster crab, Rock crab, Pea crab, Purse crab, Spider crab, Stone crab, and Heike crab.
		Purse crab (Zool.), any land crab of the genus Birgus, allied to the hermit crabs.
		Purse crab (ZoÃ¶l.), any land crab of the genus Birgus, allied to the hermit crabs.
	www.bigpurseguide.com /purse-crab.html (525 words)

	Free Discrepant Event Lesson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The women that survived the battle between the Heike and the Genji, convinced the fishers, (who believed in the divinity of the dead emperor), that the faces represented reincarnated spirits of the dead Samurai warriors and the dead child-emperor, Antoku.
		Frightened, the fishers threw all the crabs with faces back into the sea where the crabs continued breeding.
		A poem,"Tale of the Heike," describes the defeat and death of Antoku in the Inland Sea.
	www.hometreemedia.org /news1.html1.html (1429 words)

	The 2+2 Forums: Crabs with.....human faces
		he also said that they have a uniquely samurai face..since the reason they throw the crabs back is because of some battle that happened and legend and such..
		If the first crab with this feature only had a slight image of a face..how likely is it that it was taken to look like a face...
		The crab in question is the "Heike" crab.
	forumserver.twoplustwo.com /showflat.php?Number=4955334 (470 words)

	Heike - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes - Biography
		Born from the haunted sea where the last of the Heike clan met their Although generally identical to regular crustaceans, the Heike Crab have one
		artelino - Heike Monogatari or the Tale of the Heike.
		Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was born on September 21, 1853, at Groningen, The Netherlands.
	instanceweb.com /isnw/heike.html (138 words)

	eG Forums -> Smiling Japanese Crab
		The Heike Crab is another species of Japanese crab that looks like the face of a Samurai warrior.
		In the year 1185, after a fierce sea battle the samurai and courtiers of the Heike Empire threw themselves into the sea and drowned in a mass suicide.
		The Heike crabs have on their bellies ridges and bumps that perfectly form the face of a scowling samurai! They are considered sacred and never eaten.
	forums.egullet.org /index.php?showtopic=28569 (742 words)

	The Blog From Another Dimension: Kamakura
		It's a crab found in Japan with the face of a scowling samurai on its carapace.
		The legend of the crabs is that they were created after a terrible water-borne battle between the Heike and Minamoto clans, which the Heike lost.
		The dead samurai, lost to the waters, are said to have be reborn as the crabs--hence the name "Heike Crab." The crabs with the human faces happened to emerge in that area at about that time.
	www.blogd.com /archives/000777.html (1066 words)

	evolution realy? how? - Below Top Secret General Discussion
		To start this off, this crab was a popular food off the coast of Japan during the days of the warriors and such.
		When the fisherman would fish for crabs, rarely a crab would be caught bearing features that ressembled the face of a samurai.
		The environemnt of the crab made it so that it was more likely for the crabs with that face (or markings like a face) on their back to survive.
	www.belowtopsecret.com /thread101857/pg1 (3060 words)

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		The Heike ganior Heike crab (Heikea Japonica) has, on its carapace (shell), the image of a scowling human face.
		There are other varieties of "face crabs" - the Kuei Lien Hsieh (ghost crabs) of China and the paradorippe granulata, a northwestern Pacific species, to name two.
		The police free Gen just before most of them are killed by an ambush set by the brigand-leader's men.
	www.usagiyojimbo.com /other/stories/grasscutter-chapter-2.html (412 words)

	The Way of Science - Unit 1 Part 1
		The Heike crab is a variant of a wide-spread Japanese species.
		It is called the Heike Monogatari, the tale of the Heike.
		Soon, though, their fear becomes more and more justified: more and more crabs begin to show the shadowy visages of scowling samurai in the wrinkles of their shells.
	www.wayofscience.info /unit3part5.html (927 words)

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	The Heike Crab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"Local fishermen say the Taira (Heike) samurai, whose spirits live on in the form of crabs, still wander the bottoms of the Inland Sea.
		The carapace, or hard shell back plate, of the local "Heike" crab does bear an eerie resemblance to a human-like samurai face, the same human face seen in Japanese Kabuki theater masks.
		"In the belief that such crabs are holy creatures, fishermen have been routinely throwing back crabs that even faintly resemble a human face.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C05/tp/TP0503aa.htm (240 words)

	Allakhazam.com: Final Fantasy XI
		Of course Aspir is a level 20 Black Mage spell, but that is what most Rdm sub anyway.
		A useful thread on what buffs crabs use, and which need Dispel.
		Never XP on crabs without a Red Mage.
	ffxi.allakhazam.com /db/bestiary.html?ffamily=10&sortby=level (163 words)

	Yoshioka Ichimonji Tokubetsu Juyo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		IT IS BELIEVED BY MANY THAT THE SPRIT'S OF THE DEFEATED HEIKE WARRIORS, ROAM THE SEA, IN THE FORM OF THE "THE HEIKE CRAB" (NAMED AFTER THEM).
		The Genpei War resulted in the fall of the Taira clan and establishment of Minamoto Yoritomo as shogun of
		The name "Genpei" comes from Genji and Heike, alternate readings of the kanji characters 'Minamoto' and 'Taira' respectively.
	www.samuraisword.com /nihonto_juyo/Ichimonji (798 words)

	News Clips for January 15, 2004
		The committee will call for a limit of 500 crab pots per commercial fishing license not to exceed 1,000 pots per vessel with two or more license-holders on board, Bradford said.
		But blue crab landings dropped since then from a record high of 60.4 million pounds in 1998 down to 55.9 million pounds in 1999, to 38.8 million pounds in 2000 to 29.9 million pounds in 2001, according to state records of dockside seafood sales.
		Researchers believe the floodwaters caused a mass downstream migration of blue crabs that resulted in fishermen catching three times the amount of crabs they would normally catch that fall based on the amount of effort.
	www.ncsu.edu /news/dailyclips/0104/011504.htm (11637 words)

	HEIKE : Spiritual beings from Japanese Mythology
		The Taira tribe took a total pasting and were more or less wiped out or drowned in the inland sea.
		The HEIKE crabs which abound in this area have shells with what look like scowling faces indented on their shells.
		These are said to be the spirits of the departed Tairas as they have a lot to scowl about.
	www.godchecker.com /pantheon/japanese-mythology.php?deity=HEIKE (141 words)

	Category:Crabs - FFXIclopedia
		Metallic Body - Crab gains a Stoneskin effect.
		Bubble Shower - Crab deals AOE water damage and STR Down
		Bubble Curtain - Crab gains a Shell effect
	wiki.ffxiclopedia.org /index.php/Category:Crabs (45 words)

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