Alaina Novotny February 19, 2014 Research Paper Jackie Joyner-Kersee is an intelligent, generous, fun-loving famous African American who happens to also be an Olympic heptathlete. Inspite of growing up in a big family, a dangerous neighborhood, and with little money, she grew up to be the record holder of the long jump and to own many Olympic medals. Jacqueline Joyner, widely known as Jackie Joyner, was born March 3, 1962 in East St. Louis, Illinois. She was named Jacqueline after President John
pray for Atsumori after his death. Shortly after killing Atsumori, Kumagai renounces his ways and becomes a monk name Rensho and travels back to Ichinotani to pay his respects to and pray for the soul of Atsumori. This play is a continuation from Heike Monogatari because it tells the tale of Kumagai and what he encounters in his new life as a monk while stressing the importance of Buddhist values, such as nonattachment and karma, and character transformation of warrior to priest and enemy to friend
.. middle of paper ... ...y prayer and the sword” (pg. 95), shows that the combination of Buddhist religion and physical strength is a sufficiently powerful combination to ward off evil. I chose to read the play, Funa Benkei, because I enjoyed Heike Monogatari and Yoshitsune’s story. This play seemed to have less allusions and references than the other plays we read in class. A knowledge of poems from older works did not seem to be crucial to understanding this play, although it was based on Gikeiki
from the Tale of Heike. Atsumori is the son of Taira no Kiyomori whose death is tragically depicted in chapter 9.16 of the Tale of Heike. After the Taira have been defeated by the Minamoto, Atsumori fails to join the fleeing Taira fleets and is stopped and killed Kumagai no Naozane, a warrior serving the Minamoto clan. Naozane is beside himself with remorse after killing Atsumori and in the Tale of Heike vows to become a monk and in the Noh play, becomes a monk. The Tale of Heike focuses on the perspective
The Way of The Warrior in The Tale of The Heike Heike Monogatari, with its multitude of battles and skirmishes, provides a wonderful chance to analyze the way of the warrior in ancient Japan. There aren't a great number of surviving works from this period that show in such great detail both the brute and the compassion of the Japanese warriors. They followed carefully a distinct set of principles which made up the well-rounded warrior. Loyalty to one's master, bravery and glory in any situation
seeps its way into Noh are the religious undertones and shrinking the distance between the world of the living and the world of spirits. In Zeami’s Atsumori, the play concerns characters from a scene in a probably already overdramatic depiction in Heike Monogatari, bringing in a single frame from Japanese military history into a different context. Sumidagawa has a slightly different way of coming into existence, since it does not depend so heavily on an exact picture from Ise Monogatari, and is only
references and plotlines. These tales are the primary sources of information for two plays in particular written by the famous Japanese playwright Zeami: Atsumori and Matsukaze. The warrior-play Atsumori draws from the famous war epic The Tale of Heike to further an anti-war message grounded in the original text, as well as to further explore Buddhist themes of attachment and karmic ties. Matsukaze draws its origins and background from Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji and Ariwara no Narihira’s
Although Tadanori did it for his own reasons, in the end, it showed the monk that he could not leave poetry (266-267, 271,276). Works Cited Tyler, Royall. Japanese Nō Drama. New York: Penguin Books, 1992. Print. Watson, Burton. The Tales of Heike. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. N. pag. Web. 15 Apr. 2011.
Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu (1435-1516) and takes place in the first year of the Bunji era (1185), on the shores of the Daimotsu Bay in the Settsu province in autumn, and later moves to the sea off of the bay. This is after the Genji victory over the Heike (Heike Monogatari) in the Genpei war. The play is of the fifth category (kiri-nō), a final play, and is current in all five schools of Noh. Funa Benkei is a sort of oddity because the main role, generally referred to as the shite, but also is known as
references. Atsumori is a Nō play written by Zeami. This is classified as the second category of Nō drama, which talks about warriors. The plot of this play is base on the Heike Monogatari, and the story happens in the late 12th century at Ichinotani, the place where Atsumori was killed by Kumagai no Jirō Naozane. In the Heike Monogatari, two large clans of Minamoto and Taira were fighting each other. Atsumori was a member of the Taira clan, while Kumagai was a member of the Minamoto clan. During
By nature, Japanese No drama draw much of their inspiration and influence from the classics. Many are based on episodes from the most popular classics, like Atsumori, based on the Tale of Heike, or Matsukaze, which was actually based on a collage of earlier work. Even within these episodes do we find references to yet more classic works of literature, from the oldest collections of poetry to adopted religious texts. That isn’t to say that No is without its own strokes of creativity—the entire
and 16th centuries which modern Japanese speakers would not understand, and lack of its penetration in the society as entertainment. However, some knowledge of plots of the play, such classic literature works as Ise monogatari, Genji monogatari, or Heike monogatari, can make a noh performance enjoyable and appreciated as an intermediary “between the worlds between gods and men” (Handout 14). Although I have not viewed any of these stories as a noh play, I found mere reading of noh scripts with understanding
Written in the middle of the thirteenth century, The Tales of Heike was a warrior tale (gunki monogatari) about the tragic fall of the Taira clan. During the Genpei war(1180-1185) two families battle for control over the capital, the Taira/Heike clan and the Genji/Minamoto clan. Although the majority of the tale highlights the defeats of the Heike clan, there are numerous tales of the downfalls of various warriors in the Minamoto clan. In book nine, chapter four titled “The Death of Lord Kiso” the
superconducting material, hence the high demand of such a product. The development of superconductors has been a working progress for many years and some superconductors are already in use, but there is always room for improvement. In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes first discovered superconductivity when he cooled mercury to 4 degrees K (-452.47º F / -269.15º C). At this temperature, mercury’s resistance to electricity seemed to disappear. Hence, it was necessary for Onnes to come within 4 degrees