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Taiheiki (TV Series)
''Taiheiki'' (太平記) is a 1991 Japanese historical television series and the 29th NHK taiga drama. It is based on the 1958 novel ''Shihon Taiheiki'' by Eiji Yoshikawa. Plot Ashikaga Takauji cooperated with Emperor Go-Daigo and overthrew the Kamakura shogunate. The emperor began the Kenmu Restoration, but the samurai are more dissatisfied than before. As the leader of samurai, Takauji is worried about whether to establish a new shogunate. Cast Ashikaga clan *Hiroyuki Sanada as Ashikaga Takauji *Yasuko Sawaguchi as Akahashi Tōko (Tōshi), Takauji's wife *Ken Ogata as Ashikaga Sadauji, Takauji's father *Shiho Fujimura as Uesugi Kiyoko, Takauji's mother *Masanobu Takashima as Ashikaga Tadayoshi, Takauji's younger brother *Kataoka Takatarō as Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Takauji's heir **Yūsuke Morita as Senjuō (young Yoshiakira) *Michitaka Tsutsui as Ashikaga Tadafuyu, Takauji's illegitimate son **Yūichirō Yamazaki as Izayamaru (young Tadafuyu) *Yasuo Daichi as Isshiki Umanosuke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historical
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. History is not complete and still has debatable mysteries. History is also an academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the nature of history as an end in itself, as well as its usefulness to give perspective on the problems of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanako Higuchi
(born December 13, 1958) is a Japanese actress. Her credits include film, television, and radio dramas, stage, commercials, and voice roles. Born in Kamo, Niigata, she played her first lead at age 20 in the television drama ''Kōrogi-bashi.'' Kanako's film credits include ''Hokusai Manga'', ''Bedtime Eyes'', ''Zatoichi'' (1989), ''Casshern'', ''Memories of Tomorrow'', and ''Ashura no Jō Blood Gets In Your Eyes''. Among her television roles are Lady Yodo in the 1987 NHK Taiga drama ''Dokuganryū Masamune'' and Hanayasha in the 1991 Taiga drama ''Taiheiki.'' She has represented the cosmetics firms KOSÉ and Kao. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 15th Hochi Film Awards for '' Rōningai''. She married Shigesato Itoi in 1993 and has a dog named Bouillon. Filmography Films *'' Edo Porn'' (1981) *'' Manji'' (1983) *'' Tora-san, the Go-Between'' (1985) *''Bedtime Eyes'' (1987) *''Zatoichi'' (1989) *''Rōningai'' (1990) *'' Shara'' (2003) *''Casshern'' (2004) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashikaga Tadayoshi
"Ashikaga Tadayoshi" in ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 624. was a general of the Northern and Southern Courts period (1337–92) of Japanese history and a close associate of his elder brother Takauji, the first Muromachi ''shōgun''. Son of Ashikaga Sadauji and Uesugi Kiyoko, daughter of Uesugi Yorishige, the same mother as Takauji, he was a pivotal figure of the chaotic transition period between the Kamakura and Muromachi shogunates.Yasuda (1990:22) Tadayoshi is today considered a military and administrative genius and the true architect of many of his elder brother's successes.Encyclopædia Britannica Online accessed on August 11, 2009 In contemporary chronicles he is rarely called with his name, but is instead called eith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashikaga Clan
The was a prominent Japanese samurai clan which established the Muromachi shogunate and ruled Japan from roughly 1333 to 1573. The Ashikaga were descended from a branch of the Minamoto clan, deriving originally from the town of Ashikaga in Shimotsuke Province (modern-day Tochigi Prefecture). For about a century the clan was divided in two rival branches, the Kantō Ashikaga, who ruled from Kamakura, and the Kyōto Ashikaga, rulers of Japan. The rivalry ended with the defeat of the first in 1439. The clan had many notable branch clans, including the Hosokawa, Imagawa, Hatakeyama (after 1205), Kira , Shiba, and Hachisuka clans. After the head family of the Minamoto clan died out during the early Kamakura period, the Ashikaga came to style themselves as the head of the Minamoto, co-opting the prestige which came with that name. Another Ashikaga clan, not related by blood, and derived instead from the Fujiwara clan, also existed. History Emperor Go-Daigo 後醍醐天皇 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenmu Restoration
The was a three-year period of Imperial rule in Japanese history between the Kamakura period and the Muromachi period from 1333 to 1336. The Kenmu Restoration was an effort made by Emperor Go-Daigo to overthrow the ruling Kamakura Shogunate and restore the Imperial House to power in Japan, returning to civilian government after 148 years of ''de facto'' military government from Kamakura.Sansom 1977: 22-42. Go-Daigo launched the Genkō War in 1331 against the Kamakura Shogunate but was defeated and exiled to the Oki Islands. Go-Daigo launched a second uprising, and with the assistance of the defected Kamakura general Ashikaga Takauji, defeated the Kamakura Shogunate at the siege of Kamakura in 1333. The Imperial House was restored to power but Go-Daigo's policies failed to satisfy his ''samurai'' supporters and most Japanese people. The Kenmu Restoration was ultimately overthrown when Takauji became ''Shōgun'' and founded the Ashikaga Shogunate in 1336, beginning the " North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamakura Shogunate
The was the feudal military government of Japan during the Kamakura period from 1185 to 1333. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"''Kamakura-jidai''"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 459. The Kamakura shogunate was established by Minamoto no Yoritomo after victory in the Genpei War and appointing himself as ''shōgun''. Yoritomo governed Japan as military dictator from the eastern city of Kamakura with the emperor of Japan and his Imperial Court in the official capital city of Heian-kyō (Kyoto) as figureheads. The Kamakura ''shōguns'' were members of the Minamoto clan until 1226, the Fujiwara clan until 1252, and the last six were minor princes of the imperial family.Nussbaum"Minamoto"at pp. 632–633. The Hōjō clan were the ''de facto'' rulers of Japan as ''shikken'' (regent) of the ''shōgun'' from 1203.Nussbaum"Fujiwara"at pp. 200–201. The Kamakura shogunate saw the Jōkyū War in 1221 and the Mongol invasions of Japan under Kublai Khan in 1274 and 1281. The Kamaku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emperor Go-Daigo
Emperor Go-Daigo (後醍醐天皇 ''Go-Daigo-tennō'') (26 November 1288 – 19 September 1339) was the 96th emperor of Japan, Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'')後醍醐天皇 (96) retrieved 2013-8-28. according to the traditional order of succession. He successfully overthrew the Kamakura shogunate in 1333 and established the short lived Kenmu Restoration to bring the Imperial House back into power. This was to be the last time the emperor had real power until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.Sansom 1977: 22–42. The Kenmu restoration was in turn overthrown by Ashikaga Takauji in 1336, ushering in the Ashikaga shogunate, and split the imperial family into two opposing factions between the Ashikaga backed Northern Court situated in Kyoto and the Southern Court based in Yoshino led by Go-Daigo and his later successors. This 14th-century sovereign personally chose his posthumous name after the 9th-century Emperor Daigo and ''go-'' (後), translates as "later", and he is thu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashikaga Takauji
was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate."Ashikaga Takauji" in ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 625. His rule began in 1338, beginning the Muromachi period of Japan, and ended with his death in 1358. He was a male-line descendant of the samurai of the (Minamoto) Seiwa Genji line (meaning they were descendants of Emperor Seiwa) who had settled in the Ashikaga area of Shimotsuke Province, in present-day Tochigi Prefecture. According to Zen master and intellectual Musō Soseki, who enjoyed his favor and collaborated with him, Takauji had three qualities. First, he kept his cool in battle and was not afraid of death.Matsuo (1997:105) Second, he was merciful and tolerant. Third, he was very generous with those below him. Life His childhood name was Matagorō (又太郎). Takauji was a general of the Kamakura shogunate sent to Kyoto in 1333 to put down the Genkō War which had started i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shigeaki Saegusa
Shigeaki Saegusa (, formerly ; ''Saegusa Shigeaki''; born July 8, 1942) is a Japanese composer. Career Saegusa is best known for his opera version '' Chushingura'' of the well-known kabuki epic of the Forty-seven Ronin/Chūshingura with a libretto by the novelist Shimada Masahiko. Written over a period of 10 years, the opera was most recently performed at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in 2002. His newest opera, ''Jr. Butterfly'' is a sequel to Giacomo Puccini's ''Madama Butterfly''. He has also written the background music for anime, the foremost of which being ''Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam''. Other anime he has written for are '' Astro Boy (1980)'', ''Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ'', '' Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack'', '' Catnapped! The Movie'', and '' Mother: Saigo no Shoujo Eve''. Works Opera *1997 ''Chushingura'' *2004 ''Jr. Butterfly'' Oratorio *1989 ''Yamato Takeru'' Orchestral works *1971 ''Piano Concerto'' *1983 ''The Symphony'' *1985 Symfonic Suite ''Z Gundam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Ogata
, better known by his stage name , was a Japanese actor. Life Ogata was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ogata is well known for his roles in Peter Greenaway's ''The Pillow Book'', Paul Schrader's '' Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters'' and Shohei Imamura's '' The Ballad of Narayama''. He won the award for best actor at the 26th Blue Ribbon Awards for ''Okinawan Boys''. In television, his starring role as Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the 1965 NHK Taiga drama ''Taikōki'' catapulted him to fame. Ken went on to many prominent roles in subsequent programs. The following year, he portrayed Benkei in ''Minamoto no Yoshitsune''. The network tapped him again for the role of Fujiwara no Sumitomo in the 1976 ''Kaze to Kumo to Niji to''. He returned to playing Hideyoshi in the 1978 ''Ōgon no Hibi'', and returned to the lead as Ōishi Kuranosuke in ''Tōge no Gunzō,'' the 1982 ''Chūshingura.'' Another featured appearance in a Taiga drama was in ''Taiheiki'' (1991, as Ashikaga Sadauji, father of Takauji) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shiho Fujimura
Shiho Fujimura (藤村 志保 ''Fujimura Shiho'', born 3 January 1939 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actress. She was given a Special Prize for her career at the 2008 Yokohama Film Festival. Filmography Films *''Shinobi no Mono'' (1962) *''Kujira Gami'' (1962) *'' Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance'' (1963) *''Zatoichi on the Road'' (1963) *'' Akumyō Muteki'' (1965) *''Return Of Daimajin'' (1966) *''Shiroi Kyotō'' (1966) *''Zatoichi's Cane Sword'' (1967) *''The Snow Woman'' (1968) *''Fumō Chitai'' (1976) *'' Tora-san Plays Cupid'' (1977) *'' Kozure Ōkami: Sono Chiisaki Te ni'' (1993) *''Bloom in the Moonlight'' (1993), Tatsu Taki *'' Wait and See'' (1998) *''Gemini'' (1999) *''Merdeka 17805'' (2001) *''Inugami'' (2001) *'' Yunagi City, Sakura Country'' (2007) *'' Inju: The Beast in the Shadow'' (2008) Television *''Taikōki'' (1965), Nene *''Ōgon no Hibi'' (1978), Yodo-dono *''Musashibō Benkei'' (1986), Tokiwa Gozen *''Taiheiki'' (1991), Uesugi Kiyok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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