Battle of Ichi-no-Tani Essays

  • Farewell Addresses to the late Atsumori and the Late Lady Rokujo: Justifications for Attachments and Guides to Enlightenment

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    Heike monogatari. This one-on-one battle causes the late Atsumori lingering attachment to this world, as well as Kumagai a great deal of regrets and long-term apologies for the elegant boy. The time is when mortal combats between the Taira and the Genji are constantly waged and finally the latter wins victory. Kumagai finds Atsumori catching up with his clan offshore of Ichi-no-tani. The former gives the challenge and the latter bravely complies with the battle. Kumagai, however, almost ... ..

  • Influential Japanese Playwrights

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    Vengeful ghosts, evil demons, and people turned to animals. These are all features of a typical Japanese Noh play. The battles for power in medieval Japan are responsible for inspiring the creator of the noh genre in Japanese theater. The noh theater is interesting and colorful with an assortment of masks and costumes carefully crafted to represent the character they represent (Noh). Many of the great plays written by playwright Zeami Motokiyo, the most highly regarded of all in the genre, inspired

  • Tadanori by Zeami Motokiyo

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    Zeami Motokiyo, one of the best-known nō writers, is the author of Tadanori. The setting is in Suma during the season of autumn. Tadanori is considered a warrior play, shura mono, because the story deals with a warrior who died in battle. This, however, is the not the main focus of the drama. Due to his untimely death and the defeat of the Taira clan, Tadanori’s spirit lingers on in the world for wanting a poem to be in an imperial anthology with his name as the author. He struggles with this and