tale of heike Flashcards
1
Q
plot
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struggle of power because minamoto (genji) and tajra (heike)
2
Q
Yoritomo and Yoshitsune
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- brothers of the minamoto family
- thrived
3
Q
Kumagai Naozane
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- has morals
- empathy
- killed a boy the same age as his son
- it was his only choice bc he would have been killed anyways
- he said he would see that “prayers are said for your rebirth in paradise”
- after this incident he turns to a religious life -> priest
- boy he killed was atsumori son of tsunemori
4
Q
high priest of kumano
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- went to shrine of imakumano at tanabe for 7 days and did scared dances and prayers before the diety
- received an oracle to side with white (genji)
- set up a cock fight with 7 red and 7 white -> white all won
- put the emblem of the deity of the shrine on all his ships and painted the name of the guardian god on his standards
5
Q
white
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genji
6
Q
red
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heike
7
Q
team heike
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-had the emperor endowed with the 10 virtues (never committed a sin) and 3 sacred treasures of the realm
8
Q
Great Bodhisattva Hachiman
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- Shinto god of war
- sent a sign to genji
- white banner floating in the breeze that came drifting over fleets and settled on the stern of one of genjis ships hanging by a rope
- genji and his men washed their hands and did obeisance
- thousands of dolphins then charged towards heike
9
Q
Shigeyoshi
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-betrayed heike and told genji their plan
10
Q
questions
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- are cock fights religious
- was it shameful to betray ?
- significance of young stag that passed away?
11
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emperor and Lady Nii
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- she tells him to turn east and bid farewell to the deity of the great shrine of ise
- tells him to say the nembutsu (west), amida buddha and the holy ones may come to welcome you to the pure western land
12
Q
former empress
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- isolates herself
- prayed for the scared spirit of the emperor -> to attain perfect buddahood
- prayed for spirits of heike to enter way of salvation
- has a room for buddha
- she spent all day saying nembutsu and performing buddhist services
13
Q
kenreimon’in
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- last empirical survivor of the battle
- entered the cell of a monk
- cut her hair short as instructed in the Way by the abbot of the Choraku temple
- presented preist the robe of emperor antoku
- she became a nun
