Lexicographical Neighbors of Heishi
Literary usage of Heishi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Simplified Grammar of the Japanese Language (modern Written Style) by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1886)
"Thus " one war-vessel" is gun- kanis-so; "one soldier" is heishi ichi-mei (or
ichi-nin); "one pen " is fude ip-pon (less frequently isso no ..."
2. Russo-Japanese War (1905)
"The swords used by the Genji and heishi warriors had b;en of moderate length :
during the anxieties of the Mongol invasion the swords grew longer, ..."
3. Russo-Japanese War (1904)
"The Age of the Genji and the heishi (Military Clans of the Minamoto and the Taira.
1156—1185. AD) iHE period cf Fujiwara Supremacy entirely changed the ..."
4. Saitō Mussashi-bō Benkei. (Tales of the Wars of the Gempei): (Tales of the by James Seguin De Benneville (1910)
"... of the lands held by the leading Taira family—the Ise- heishi—came to lie in
the West, ... Dictionary—under heishi and Taira—as to distribution. ..."
5. Feudal Kamakura: Outline Sketch of the History of Kamakura from 1186 to 1333 by Joseph Ernest De Becker (1907)
"(" Swifter they ran than the water of the Fuji-gawa which rolls over the rocks—
the heishi of Ise.") It was said that this was composed by some mischievous ..."
6. The Mikado's Empire by William Elliot Griffis (1883)
""For an exile to plot against the heishi [Taira] is like a uiou>c plotting against
a cat." At the head of the peninsula of ..."
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