taira vs minamoto

February 21, 2010

Jesus, I am actually drawing a flow chart/family tree for my Japanese Civ reading.

We’re covering the first book of The Tale of Heike and I can’t keep anyone’s names straight (and I’m usually decent with names) which is a major problem. Plus I have to do a write-up for this and I’m so not up for discussing the role of gender in this piece when I can’t even remember who’s who. I should probably dispose of this piece of paper because I have notes like “JERK WHO EXECUTED HALF-BROTHER AND HIS FAMILY” scrawled on the margins, but hey, if it helps me remember…

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