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Taira

In Japanese history, a military clan prominent in the 10th to 12th centuries and dominant at court 1159-85. Their destruction by their rivals, the Minamoto,in 1185 is the subject of the 13th-century literary classic Heike Monogatari/The Tale of the Heike.


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