#taira no kiyomori

[nanabansama]

Origin of Mokke

I recently took an interest in the etymology of the term Mokke and came away with some interesting research findings, so I thought it would be fun to share them with you all.

The term Mokke seems to originate from an old Japanese epic called The Tale of the Heike. Within it, one of the key characters experiences a series of peculiar events in a section titled "Mokke no Sata". Mokke in this context appears to be a shortening of the broader known term "Mononoke," and Mononoke were responsible for the strange events that happened in the short story. Because of this story, Mokke came to become a term used to describe unexpected things or occurrences.

And, interesting enough, I found that the events from the story shared similarities with the Mokke as they are depicted in Hanako-kun.

First we have the skulls. They appear before Taira no Kiyomori, the head of the Taira Clan (Heike), and combine into a giant skull over 442 feet tall. Yet instead of being intimidated, Kiyomori merely glares back at them and they disappear without a trace.

This greatly reminds me of how the Mokke can combine together into a giant monster. It also reminds me of how skittish they can be.

In addition, at the end of the story, Kiyomori's naginata goes missing in the middle of the night. Not too unlike a certain group of critters known for their stealing habits, hm?

I honestly believe that AidaIro must have based their Mokke creatures on this story. Not solely this story, of course, since they must have pulled from some other myths and legends as well, but when their name is shared with this infamous spooky story...? How could it be a coincidence!? (However small it may be!?)

Do you guys know any other inspirations AidaIro probably had for the Mokke? If so, I'd love to hear! (And before anyone asks: Peeps don't count. Sorry.)

[whydoyouaskmethis]

Tamaki Hiroshi and Nakagawa Taishi played as father and son in Taira no Kiyomori (2012). A few years ago, when Tamaki Hiroshi had a child, Nakagawa Taishi made a jealous comment about his baby, saying "My position has been taken away."

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Ubuyashiki's Daughters reminds me of the Kamuro from The Heike Story (2021).

Interestingly, the Demon Slayer Corps were founded during Heian Period, when Muzan Kibutsuji, a distant relative of the current Ubuyashiki Family, became the very first demon. You can see the clothes they wear which is different than Sengoku Period.

Historically, Heian Period is also the time when Taira no Kiyomori employ the Kamuro to execute traitors that goes against the Heike. They are supposed to be Courtesans but Kiyomori employ them to be his spies instead as no one would suspect them as such.

Kamuro are orphan girls who were in training to be courtesans, so they could sing. In the Period Drama, Taira no Kiyomori (2012), a suspected traitor heard a mysterious singing voice of a girl on a bridge at night until she appeared and killed him. See video clip here.

Here in Demon Slayer, a similar singing is also heard. What's interesting is that many Japanese folktales and folklores often came from this time period where most of the actual demon slayers are the Minamoto Samurai who would later defeat the Taira aka Heike.

I can see why in the comedy drama, Samurai Sensei (2015), a Samurai got freaked out when he sees two young girls in similar clothing appeared in front of him, thinking they're sent to kill him.

Interestingly, you can see Kamuro today in Japan during festivals.

One reason I love this anime as much as Rurouni Kenshin because it's mixed of history and fiction. The characters and stories are fictional but the historical backdrop and timeline is real.

[johnnyraine]

Top Shows I Watched in 2023 (not of)

SPOILERS!

7. Loki (Season 2) - 6.5/10

I don't have much to say about Loki other than I loved the final episode, Natalie Holt deserves some kind of award for her music and it makes me cry.

6. One Piece (Live Action) - 6.5/10

As everyone has already said, this should not have worked. I didn't have much faith in it, but I chose to watch it anyway. And I'm glad I did.

Though there were moments of stiff acting and/or line delivery, I still like it overall.

Though I still liked Roger's anime death more than here.

5. My Beautiful Man/Utsukushii kare (Season 2) - 7/10

I don't remember much considering I watched this months ago. But I do recall wanting and waiting for this for a WHILE. I was not disappointed and Utsukushii Kare stands as my favorite BL series. Minato's Laundromat would've been on the list, but it failed me, Utsukushii Kare hasn't. So yeah.

4. Jack O' Frost (2023) - 6/10

I have issues with the whole "an MC has amnesia" plot and considering this has happened 3 times in the same year is crazy to me.

But do recall I Fucking LOVE the music! OOOOHHHH, Shit! I love it. As soon as "Winter Days" started playing during episode 2 or 3, I immediately started looking for the soundtrack.

I also have yet another celebrity crush in Kyoya Honda.

3. Taira no Kiyomori - 8/10

This is unfair given the fact I started this last year and left for a month, making me finish this in January or February. But I still finished in 2023, so it counts!

As per my previous review, I was fucking bored with the first 6 to 9 episodes. After them, however, I loved this show. I love the music, I love the characters, and I like some of the comedy. There are so many great moments that I absolutely love.

Despite knowing how it ended, historically, I was still upset at the characters' deaths.

2. More Than Words (2022) - 6/10

I heard this was a Japanese BL, my favorite type of BL, and I guess. But as others have said, it's mostly about the relationship between Makio and Mieko. Though perhaps not for the second part of the story...

Anyway, I loved this show. It fucked me up, but I did stay up all night till 12 or 1 am to finish it, and I couldn't stop thinking about it for a month. So yeah, despite the score, I am putting it up here.

1. Kamakura dono no 13 nin/13 Lords of the Shogun - 7/10

HERE COMES THE MAIN MAN HIMSELF, KŌKI MITANI!

The main man himself, the man who wrote my favorite Taiga Drama, SANADA MARU! No wonder I was fucking addicted to this show. For first time in A WHILE I watched and finished this entire show in a week.

I was drawn into this show by the fucking neck. I just was.

I remember seeing You Oizumi as Minamoto no Yoritomo and thinking, "Nah." I couldn't get behind him, I simply didn't see it at first. Then he died and literally episodes later, I was missing this man.

All my favorite characters died. ALL! And since I don't know much about the Heian nor Kamakura period, I was taken out. Fucking Kazusa, dead; Minamoto no Yoshinaka, I knew this was so it's my fault, but dead; fucking Wada Yoshimori, I fucking loved him, and I didn't know it! DEAD!

They killed my pathetic twink, Minamoto no Sanetomo. And he was gay! FUCK! I was heavily upset.

And the fact that it ends with Yoshitoko's death via his sister not giving him his medicine and watching him die! Gods dammmmmnnn!

Kōki Mitani you heavenly fucker! Ah!

I also love the music, one of my favorites Taiga drama themes.

Now, that wasn't all I watched, but simply all I felt should be on the list. I refuse to put ten shows up here if I don't care enough for them.

Here's to another year.

[memoriesofachicken]

Kiyomori and Da Ji’s dialogue when they encounter each other in Warriors Orochi 3. I sense some bad blood between them...

[hoshi-kawaii]

I'm reading a summary of Heike Monogatari and I can't help but feel like it's very Macbeth. I'm getting big Macbeth vibes.

[sergioguymanproust]

The Japanese have a morbid interest in all things related to death , something so deep and disgusting that I believe it is born out of their origins, related to Mongolians and even Tibetans and Buddhism on how their universe is represented ,hell and how dark entities are always ready to dismember and even eat corpses in the afterlife, how death preys upon human flesh.It is as if we humans are nothing but morsels to be savored and cleaned before they go to their respective place in hell or heaven. These horrific images can only come from someone who has an obscene and dark energy. The Japanese mythology is filled with strange and demonic entities that live deep in the woods. Just the look at the avatars and demons that guard the many Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. They are there to protect Buddha or cryptid dogs in the case of shrines. Well, in my humble opinion just like we have a morbid fascination with skulls which I believe also is overrated and disgusting in my view. What is the need to celebrate death,when we know that we really never die ,we are immortal souls.We keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again.Civilization after civilization,instead of concentrating in the light we keep behaving like dark souls ! We relish in killing fellow humans ,we are constantly creating weapons of destruction,instead of building for the good of humanity. Well, it is indeed part of our psyche,our vestige of our reptilian brain and nature.Words by Sergio GuymanProust.

Death of Taira Kiyomori, from the Genpei series, published by Taninaka Silk Editions in Kyoto on April 22nd 1985.

Takeda, Hideo (1948 - )

More from the Genpei series More japanese art

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Actor Nakamura Utaemon of Edo as Taira no Kiyomori in “New” Kaomise at the Naka Theatre, by Utagawa Toyokuni I, late 18th-early 19th century.

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Genpei War

The Genpei War (1180-1185 CE), also known as the Taira-Minamoto War, was a conflict in Japan principally between two rival clans: the Minamoto and Taira, for control of the imperial throne. The civil war was punctuated by a typhoon, earthquake, famine and a plague but was finally ended at the decisive Battle of Dannoura when the defeated leader of the Taira, Tomomori, and the claimant to the throne Antoku, both committed suicide. In the aftermath of the war, the Kamakura Shogunate was established by Minamoto no Yoritomo and the military would go on to dominate Japanese government for centuries to come.

Background

The Genpei War (Genpei No Soran) was a civil war for dynastic control in Japan between two powerful clan groups who each claimed a rightful inheritance to the imperial throne. From the 9th century CE, the process known as 'dynastic shedding' removed individuals from the dynastic lineage because the royal family became too large and too costly to maintain. With emperors having as many as 50 children, even direct descendants were removed from the royal line and given one of two family names: Minamoto (aka Minamoto-Shi or Genji) or Taira (aka Hei-Shi or Heike). Both groups were militarily powerful and a bitter rivalry developed between them. The aristocracy at court depended on one of the families according to their particular allegiance.

Almost inevitably, armed conflict broke out between these rivals, notably in the 1156 CE Hogen Disturbance when the two sides claimed the throne vacated by the death of retired emperor Toba. The retired emperor Sutoku was supported by Tameyoshi, head of the Minamoto and some factions of the powerful Fujiwara clan led by Yorinaga. Meanwhile, the then emperor Go-Shirakawa was supported by Tameyoshi's eldest son, who joined with the Taira and other members of the Fujiwara, led by Tadamichi, Yorinaga's brother. The Go-Shirakawa side, with help from the military commander Taira no Kiyomori, quashed the rebellion, and Tameyoshi was executed.

1160 CE saw another outbreak in clan hostilities with the Heiji Disturbance. Minamoto no Yoshitomo, jealous at the rewards and prestige won by Taira no Kiyomori following the Hogen Disturbance, seized the throne in 1159 CE while his rival was away from court. Taira no Kiyomori swiftly returned to restore order and Yoshimoto was killed. Two rebellions and twice the Taira clan had prevailed so that they were now the most powerful family in Japan. For the Minamoto, though, it would be third time lucky.

Taira no Kiyomori enjoyed even greater rewards now that he had quashed two 'disturbances' to the status quo and he was made Grand minister of state (daijo daijin) in 1167 CE. From then on, though, Kiyomori began to lose important allies, notably his old supporter the emperor Go-Shirakawa, now retired, who plotted to assassinate Kiyomori in 1177 CE following his attempt to promote a Taira prince. Trouble was, once again, brewing at court. A failed attempt by Kiyomori to move the court from Kyoto to Kobe was followed in 1180 CE by him audaciously putting his grandson Antoku, a mere two-year-old, on the throne at Kyoto. Antoku was the son of Emperor Takakura and his wife was Kiyomori's daughter. At this, the Minamoto had had enough, and with the support of Mochito, the son of ex-emperor Go-Shirakawa, civil war broke out.

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi - Taira no Kiyomori encountering the ghost of Akugenta Yoshihira at the Nunobiki Falls c.1825

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GENJI CLAN some of them anyway (some designs except canon ones) might change with time (or when fgo releases them........... hurry it up nasu....)

For clarifications:

Tokiwa Gozen - ONLY Yoshitsune's mother (some sources indicate her dying at 42 and some mention her living at least until 48 years and no confirmed year of death), Yoshitomo's favorite concubine, mother of Yoshitomo's last 3 children

Yoshitomo - Yoshitsune, Yoritomo and Noriyori's father

The design choice for making Tokiwa look so much like Yoshitsune is based on the fact that in Heian-Kyo it was established that Yoshitsune looks exactly like Tokiwa via Yoshitsune's memory of words Taira no Kiyomori said to her as a child

Yoritomo - Yoshitomo's third son and Yoshitsune' and Noriyori's older half-brother

Noriyori - Yoshitomo's sixth son, Yoritomo's younger half-brother and Yoshitsune's older half-brother

Yoshinaka - Yoshitsune, Yoritomo and Noriyori's cousin

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Sho Sakurai goes to the romantic Miyajima Island on a two-day, one-night school trip with Shinichi Hatori, Eiji Kotoge, and Takashi Yoshimura on the "1 Oku 3000 Mannin no SHOW Channel" special

"The Nippon Television" variety show "1 Oku 3000 Mannin no SHOW Channel" "Adult Social Studies Field Trip SP", featuring Arashi's Sakurai Sho, announcer Hatori Shinichi, Biking's Kotoge Eiji, and "Heisei Nobushi kobushi'"s Yoshimura Takashi, will be broadcast from 14:35 p.m. to 16.00 p.m. on japanese time and on 6.35.-8.00 a.m. on european time 27.10.2024. This time, they will go on a two-day, one-night trip around Hiroshima and Hyogo.

Miyajima in Aki, home to the World Heritage Site Itsukushima Shrine, is a popular tourist destination visited by approximately 4.65 million tourists annually. It is counted among Japan's Three Most Scenic Views alongside Matsushima (Miyagi) and Amanohashidate (Kyoto), but we embark on a journey to discover why Miyajima was chosen as one of Japan's Three Most Scenic Views and why Itsukushima Shrine was built on the sea.

Arriving on Miyajima by ferry from the mainland, Sakurai and his friends are astonished to discover that, although the island is inhabited, there is absolutely no "that" on the island. What is that "that" that does not exist on Miyajima, which is known as the "island of the gods"? Having suddenly come into contact with the mysteries of Miyajima, Sakurai and his friends learn about the unknown relationship between Miyajima and Taira no Kiyomori, and the secret hidden in the large torii gate that stands on the sea, as they walk along the approach to the island with historical writer Kawai.

The shrine building style of Itsukushima Shrine, which incorporates the Shinden-zukuri style of the Heian period, is one with the sea and the mountains, boasting an unparalleled beauty. When you look around with your back to the worship hall, you will see a mysterious sight. Yoshimura, a history lover, is excited to learn the reason why Miyajima was chosen as one of the Three Most Scenic Views of Japan, and the romantic untold story behind it.

Afterwards, they will enjoy the trip atmosphere by eating local gourmet food at the Omotesando shopping arcade in Miyajima and making their own original rice scoops. They will also enjoy piping hot conger eel rice at a famous conger eel restaurant that is frequented by many celebrities.

After filling their stomachs, they head to Mount Misen, which towers behind Itsukushima Shrine. It is said that if they reach the top of the mountain, they will understand why Miyajima is called the "Island of the Gods." They take a ropeway to the middle of the mountain, and then walk for 30 minutes to the top. After seeing some amazing sights and finally relaxing in the hot springs of a long-established inn, Sakurai and his friends head to their next destination, Kobe.

The second day of the trip starts in Kobe. They elegantly enjoy the "world's best breakfast," created by a French master and said to have captivated the French president and Hollywood actors. After a luxurious morning, they head to their destination, Kawasaki World. It is an experiential museum where you can "see, touch, and learn" about the products created by the Kawasaki Heavy Industries Group, well known for its Kawasaki motorcycles. Kotoge, a motorcycle enthusiast who had been bossed around by the history-loving members up until now, is excited to see it.

The predecessor of Kawasaki Heavy Industries was a shipyard established in 1878 (Meiji 11) by Kawasaki Shozo, known as the king of shipbuilding. How did Kawasaki Heavy Industries, which was originally a shipbuilding company, become famous for motorcycles? Learn about the surprising history of the company, which not only made ships and motorcycles, but also made everyday items that everyone uses at home and Japan's first ○○, as well as its incredible achievements in Europe.

The company that Kawasaki Heavy Industries is currently focusing on is "that business" that is attracting attention as the next generation of energy. Learn about Kawasaki's amazing technology, which is a world first and has an eye on the future.

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Red hitatare（Kamuro wears） - Genji and Heike Edited by Kusuyama Masao, illustrated by Settai Komura, 1925.

Kamuro (bald) group of mainly 14-15 year-old children in red costumes and with a bald head, mainly children with no relatives, active in the Heian period, about 1,200 years ago… The idea was originated by Taira no Kiyomori. Operation Spy in the Heian period. A group of spies released on the streets of Kyoto to expose anyone who speaks ill of the current regime of the Heike clan.

赤い直垂 - 源氏と平家 楠山正雄 編 小村雪岱 絵 1925

[redsamuraiii]

House of the Dragon Taira

House of the Dragon Trailer Music fits well with the Japanese period drama, Taira no Kiyomori (2012), which is about Genpei War.

[johnnyraine]

Taira no Kiyomori (2012) - Review 8/10

SPOILERS!

I'll admit, I hated the first 6 or 8 episodes. They were boring. I once left this show alone for a month and came back thinking I was on episode 9. I was not and I was severely disappointed when I found out it was episode 6.

But! The more the show goes on, the better it actually becomes. There are of course moments that I didn’t care for, but overall I really loved it the further in I got.

The fight between Taira no Kiyomori and Minamoto no Yoshitomo was great for the simply fact of, armor works. It fucking worked, holy shit, a miracle. Kiyomori cut him in the abdomen (I think) and the armor blocked it, he stabbed Yoshitomo in the chest, AND THE ARMOR BLOCKED IT! Yoshitomo did cut Kiyomori's wrist, but I'll let that slide by saying, maybe Kiyomori had little to no armor there, plus it would still hurt for a sword to hit your wrist,e even with armor.

I saw multiple actors that I know. It had me doing that DiCaprio meme multiple times. There was Kusakawa Takuya as a young Munemori; Taishi Nakagawa as a young Yoritomo; Koji Yamamoto as Fujiwara Yorinaga; Ryûnosuke Kamiki as Minamoto no Yoshitsune; and of course Kiichi Nakai as Taira no Tadamori.

The main song sung by Go-Shirakawa is overplayed, it is. They had good moments, bjt it was played too much. There were multiple moments I felt luke they played music at the wrong time or it was just the wrong song. What with Kiyomori reminiscing over his friendship with Shinzei, they played a piano song, beautiful, but then play the maun theme. Why? It ruined it. Then Kiyomori is fulled with rage after Shinzei' death and the play a battle theme. I get it, but I feel like it would have still worked if there was no music in the scene.

I love the music overall, I'll buy the soundtrack when I can.

I fucking loved so much of this. When Kiyomori had his fever dream and met Shirakawa; When his Father died and they fought on the Beach; When Kiyomori broke down, talking about the darkness around him. It was so great, I felt so much emotion.

I think this takes the number 2 spot on my Taiga drama list, right beneath Sanada Maru, and above Hideyoshi.

Overall - 8/10

[the-cricket-chirps]

Utagawa Hiroshige

Snow Landscape with Skull Shapes, left sheet of the triptych Taira Kiyomori Haunted by Strange Sights (Taira Kiyomori kaii o miru zu)

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