Keisei Narita Airport Terminal 2・3 Station Platform 3
Keisei may refer to: * Keisei (monk) * Keisei Electric Railway *Keisei Bus The is a bus company within the Keisei Group which was established on 1 October 2003 to inherit all business of the Keisei Electric Railway bus department. Local bus services Offices * Edogawa Office * Kanamachi Office * Matsudo Office * Ichika ...

Keisei (monk)
Keisei (1189–1268) was a Japanese Buddhist priest of the Tendai sect. He was a son of the regent Kujō Yoshitsune of the Fujiwara clan. His spine was permanently injured in infancy when he was dropped by his wet nurse, which probably influenced his decision to become a priest. He studied under the monk Myōe and then established a hermitage west of Kyōto. In 1217, he travelled to China, where he stayed about a year before returning to Japan. In China, he commissioned a ''nanban'' ("southern barbarian", i.e., a Persian) to write an inscription in Persian for Myōe.Donald Keene, ''Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century'' (Columbia University Press, 1999), pp. 768–770. In 1222, Keisei composed a collection of ''setsuwa'' entitled ''Kankyo no Tomo'' (Companion of a Quiet Life, or Companion in Solitude).Rajyashree Pandey, "Women, Sexuality, and Enlightenment: ''Kankyo no Tomo''", ''Monumenta Nipponica'' 50.3 (1995), pp. 325–356. ...
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Keisei Electric Railway
The (stylized as K'SEI since 2001) is a major private railway in Chiba Prefecture and Tokyo, Japan. The name ''Keisei'' is the combination of the kanji 京 from and 成 from , which the railway's main line connects. The combination uses different readings than the ones used in the city names. The railway's main line runs from Tokyo to Narita and the eastern suburb cities of Funabashi, Narashino, Yachiyo, and Sakura. Keisei runs an airport limited express train called the ''Skyliner'' from Ueno and to Narita International Airport. In addition to its railway business, the Keisei Electric Railway Company owns large bus and taxi services and some real estate holdings. It owns a large share of the Oriental Land Company which owns and manages the Tokyo Disney Resort. Keisei is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 index. History Keisei was founded on June 30, 1909 and began services on November 3, 1912, initially operating local train service ...
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