5) Never, I repeat, never talk to those of the Taira family. 6) Got it? Don’t trust the Taira Clan. Minamoto no Ryouji, a 12th-century Japanese boy of the Minamoto clan read those rules ...

When they were chanted in a melody, however, they gave me a profound sense of pathos about how the doom of the Taira clan was sealed by its defeat in the Battle of Dannoura (1185). Goto allowed me ...