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	Taira - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Taira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In reference to Japanese history, Along with Minamoto, Taira was an honorary surname bestowed by the emperors of the Heian Period to the ex-member of the imperial family when they became subjects.
		The last of the head family of the Kammu Heishi line was eventually destroyed by the armies of Minamoto no Yoritomo at the Battle of Dan-no-ura, the last battle of the Gempei War.
		Taira was the name of a city in the Fukushima prefecture, before it was consolidated into the city of Iwaki.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Taira.html (246 words)

	Articles - 1185 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		* Taira no Munemori, Japanese soldier (born 1147)
		* Taira no Noritsune, Japanese soldier (born 1160)
		* Taira no Shigehira, Japanese soldier (born 1158)
	www.nowize.com /articles/1185 (243 words)

	Heike Monogatari
		Kiyomori, the leader of the Taira clan at the beginning of the Gempei War, is described as a ruthless, emotional tyrant, hungry for power and willing to take any means to crush his enemies and gain it.
		Nasu no Yoichi's feat of archery is the subject for some of the earliest warrior prints, dating to the early eighteenth century.
		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.artelino.com /articles/heike-monogatari.asp (2693 words)

	Tongs: 1185 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Taira no Munemori, soldier of the Taira clan of Japan (born 1147);
		Taira no Shigehira, soldier of the Taira clan of Japan (born 1158); and
		Taira no Tomomori, soldier of the Taira clan of Japan (born 1152).
	www.tongs.org.uk /wiki.pl?1185 (131 words)

	Battles of Ichinotani and Yashima
		Taira no Shigehira is pursued along the shore by Kajiwara Kagesue of the Minamoto (at the top), and Taira no Tomomori urges his horse to swim so he can escape to a boat.
		Kumagai Naozane beckons with his fan to Taira no Atsumori, challenging him to return to shore and fight (in the middle), and an overloaded boat has capsized, where the Minamoto warrior Chikatsune manages to seize Taira no Moromori, who is only 14 years old.
		Nasu no Yoichi is chosen to accept the challenge and, despite the fading light and strong winds, hits the target and the fan shatters in mid-air.
	www.asiasociety.org /arts/japanesescreens/scr01.html (497 words)

	Japan 1615-1875 by Sanderson Beck
		No foreign missionaries were executed until 1622, when nine European priests were burned at the stake in Nagasaki along with sixteen Japanese; thirty other converts were beheaded.
		Iyo no Naishi is chosen to be Yorinobu's bride, and Kocho plots to kill her with a spider.
		Sugawara no Michizane was born in 845 and was appointed to the second highest position in the government as Minister of the Right in 899.
	www.san.beck.org /3-12-Japan1615-1875.html (23352 words)

	swuklink: Searchable Time-Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Death of the Japanese soldier Taira no Munemori (b.
		Death of the Japanese soldier Taira no Shigehira (b.
		No local links are provided on this page; please find the appropraite page for the location using the search facility at the top of the page - a time-line for the location will be displayed there.
	www.swuklink.com /BAAAGDJA.php?tl=1185.04 (729 words)

	NAKAMURAZA
		March 1831: premiere at the Nakamuraza of the five-role hengemono "Rokkasen Sugata no Irodori".
		July 1841: premiere at the Nakamuraza of the dance "Ame no Gorô", which is performed by Onoe Tamizô II as part of a nine-role hengemono titled "Yae Kokonoe Hana no Sugatae".
		September 1850: premiere at the Nakamuraza of of the drama "Minoriyoshi Kogane no Kikuzuki", a revision by Segawa Jokô III of the ghost play "Banshû Sarayashiki", which stars Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII, Ichikawa Kodanji IV, Bandô Shûka I and Nakayama Ichizô in the roles of Asayama Tetsuzan, the koshimoto Okiku, Hatsushiba and Iwabuchi Chûta.
	www.kabuki21.com /nakamuraza.php (3517 words)

	KAWARAZAKIZA
		November 1737: the play "Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki" is staged for the first time in Edo, at the Kawarazakiza, as a kaomise drama titled "Uruoizuki Ninin Kagekiyo".
		April 1792: premiere at the Kawarazakiza of the dance "Tenaraiko", which is performed by the star Iwai Hanshirô IV as part of a seven-role hengemono titled "Kakitsubata Nanae no Someginu".
		November 1848: premiere at the Kawarazakiza of the dance-drama "Takigiô Yukima no Ichikawa".
	www.kabuki21.com /kawarazakiza.php (954 words)

	Notes for Tale of Heike, Chapter 11
		A Minamoto archer named Nasu no Yoichi is commanded by Yoshitsune to accept the challenge of an off-shore target, a fan, that a Taira woman is holding out from the deck of a boat.
		Munetaka is Yoichi Munetaka, son of Nasu no Tarô Suketaka of Shimotsuke.
		Noritsune takes a frightening stand on a boat: "he threw his sword and spear into the sea and discarded his helmet.
	www.sonic.net /~tabine/Heike/Heikechpt11.html (1829 words)

	Carmelites peee.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Carmelite tradition traces the origin of the order to a community of hermits on Mount Carmel that succeeded the schools of the prophets in ancient Israel, although there are no certain records of monks on this mountain before the ninth decade of the twelfth century.
		Examples include Anthony the Great, who attracted such a large body of followers in the Egyptian desert that he is considered by both Catholics and the Orthodox to be the "Founder of Monasticism", and Gautama Buddha, who, having abandoned his family for a solitary quest for spiritual enlightenment, ended up as the founder of Buddhism.
		No doubt the most important event that occurred in Roman Cyprus was the visit by Apostles Paul and Barnabas accompanied by St Mark who came to the island at the outset of their first missionary journey in 45 AD.
	www.peee.org /en/Carmelites (11824 words)

	Buddhist Views of Suicide and Euthanasia
		In this case, we have no way of knowing whether the patient genuinely desires euthanasia, unless he or she has previously made a declaration of wishes in a living will.
		Here there may be a choice between: (a) no treatment at all, (b) pain-killing which only blurs or confuses the mind of the patient, and (c) treatment which hastens the end while keeping the mind clear.
		There is no reason to assign the doctor the "responsibility" for the death of the patient.
	ccbs.ntu.edu.tw /FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/becker.htm (6113 words)

	Battles
		Dan no ura was the culmination of the Gempei War (1180-85) and resulted in the complete destruction of the Taira leadership.
		With the Taira attentions diverted by Noriyori's actions, Yoshitsune was able to manuever into a position to launch a surprise attack on Ichi no tani itself.
		The Taira army was divided in two once in the area, and the force under Koremori advanced against Yoshinaka, who ambushed them at Kurikara Pass.
	www.samurai-archives.com /battlesmain.html (8702 words)

	1123 peee.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Although the emperor performs many of the roles of a head of state, there has been a persistent controversy within Japan as to whether the emperor is in fact a true monarch in a political sense or merely a hereditary pretender, as a political servant of a constitutional parliamentary republic.
		However, if there is no royal prerogative then the people who made it so by the right to make and amend the constitution are the sovereign, and the system is reversed, with the monarch actually being subordinate to them.
		However, according to the Chronicles of Japan II (續日本紀), Emperor Kanmu's mother (Takano no Niigasa) was a descendant of 200-years-earlier King Muryeong of Baekje, Korea.
	www.peee.org /en/1123 (5849 words)

	Basho's World, Terebess Asia Online (TAO)
		There is no specific mention of girls planting the field in Basho's text, but the universal custom was for the fertile young women of the villages to do the planting in the hope that they would convey some of their fertility to the rice and insure a rich harvest.
		Fujiwara no Sanekata =308= [] =308= was a poet of the Heian period active during the reign of the Emperor Ichijo (986-1011).
		Izumi no Saburo was the third son of Fujiwara no Hidehira (?-1187) who built the powerful Fujiwara presence at Hiraizumi in the late Heian period.
	www.terebess.hu /english/haiku/notes.html (12744 words)

	Heike Monogatari Text
		Kumagae no Jirô Naozane and Hirayama no Mushadokoro Sueshige stayed with the rear assault force until around midnight on the Sixth.
		The three proceeded at a walk toward the right, observing on their left the gorge the others were to descend, and came out onto the Ichi-no-tani beach by way of an old path called Tai-no-hata, unused for many years.
		Etchû no Jirôbyôe Moritsugi was attired in his favorite garb, a blue-and white hitatare and a suit of armor laced with red leather.
	www.glopac.org /Jparc/Atsumori/Heiketxt.htm (2084 words)

	Death and the Samurai
		No samurai was ever safe from the shadow of death when at war, and many famous names fell on the battlefield.
		Some of the Taira samurai, shamed by the minister's conduct, pushed him overboard under pretense of brushing past him.
		At the same Battle of Dan no Ura where Tomomori would drown himself, Noritsune was determined to take the head of his clan's great foil, Minamoto Yoshitsune.
	www.samurai-archives.com /death.html (4267 words)

	1105 oddd.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He stood for three days, January 25 to January 27, 1077, outside the gate at Canossa in the snow, begging the pope to rescind the sentence (popularly portrayed as without shoes, taking no food or shelter, and wearing a hairshirt).
		All of these names mean "island country." There is no historical record of the founding or early history of Tamna.
		It is thought by some that Rashi earned his living as a vintner, but there is no evidence for this.
	oddd.org /en/1105 (3927 words)

	Articles - 1160 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		* Taira no Noritsune, Japanese warrior (died 1185)
		* February 11 - Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Japanese general (born 1123)
		* Minamoto no Yoshihira, Japanese warrior (born 1140)
	www.worldhammock.com /articles/1160 (196 words)

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		Grand-Uncle, YORIMITSU, slayer of SHUTEN-DOJI (see above), had rid the Imperial abode of the stealy Fox with his trusted bow and placed the MINAMOTO reputation for the marksman's eye.
		YOSHIIYE is raised to CHINJUFU-SHOGUN to quell the disturbance from the monks of ONJO-JI laying revenge to ENRYAKU-JI.
		YOSHIIYE's brother, YOSHIMITSU was SABEI no JO, "Guard of the Left" of the MINAMOTO KANKI government and received YOSHIIYE's urgent message, ordering him to proceed north and relieve their hard station in MUTSU.
	www.sho-shin.com /sanin4.htm (1128 words)

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