Stone Pagoda Monument - erected for Taira-no-Kiyomori, Kobe
Stone Pagoda Monument - erected for Taira-no-Kiyomori, Kobe, Japan. Taira-no-Kiyomori was a samurai warrior in medieval Japan, the first samurai in history to take a political place among Japan's nobility, thereby establishing a samurai-dominated administrative government in Japan. He is often described as a villain or an anti-hero in a famous piece of Japanese classical literature, "the Tale of Heike."
Picture No
11768225
Media ID
46697728
Size
3308px x 5211px
(3.6MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1910s
