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Japanese Six Panel Screen: Tales from the Heike Monogatari

Featuring the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani. General Yoshitsune, the leader of the Genji troops, led his battalion down the cliff in a surprise attack on the Heike troops at the bottom of the mountain. It is said that on the way down, the cliff was so steep that the stirrups of soldiers from above hit the helmets of the soldiers below. The Genji set fire to the huts of the Heike, and the Heike troops fled to sea. Tosa School painting in ink and mineral pigments and gold leaf on paper.