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2 unusual facts about Genji: Dawn of the Samurai


Shizuka Gozen

Shizuka is represented in the 2005 video game Genji: Dawn of the Samurai, as "Gozen Shizuka" (Lady Shizuka), a character who aids the protagonist, Yoshitsune Minamoto and his ally (a former enemy) Saito Musashibo Benkei during the course of the game.

Tim Lindquist

DoubleJump Books is a strategy guide publisher responsible for the guides of games such as Disgaea: Hour of Darkness and Genji: Dawn of the Samurai.


Emperor Sanjō

One of these clans, the Minamoto clan (源氏)are also known as Genji, and of these, the Sanjō Genji (三条源氏) are descended from the 67th emperor Sanjō.

Fujiwara clan

Three late tenth century and early eleventh century women presented their views of life and romance at the Heian court in Kagerō Nikki ("The Gossamer Years") by "the mother of Michitsuna", Makura no Sōshi (The Pillow Book) by Sei Shōnagon, and Genji Monogatari (Tale of Genji) by Murasaki Shikibu (herself a Fujiwara).

Groove Collective

The original members were keyboardist Itaal Shur (who later went on to co-write the #1 hit Smooth for Carlos Santana), percussionist/MC Gordon "Nappy G" Clay, flutist Richard Worth, drummer Genji Siraisi, bassist Jonathan Maron, saxophonist Jay Rodriguez, percussionist Chris Theberge, trumpeter Fabio Morgera, Vibraphonist Bill Ware and trombonist Josh Roseman.

Itsuki Lullaby

Itsuki was next to Gokanosho, where the Heike people came to settle after their defeat in the Genji-Heike War in the Heian period and later the Kamakura shogunate sent their Genji samurai families to watch over them, thus creating the rich Genji families and poorer Heike families.

Kaoru Genji

Genji is aware of the affair by his wife and nephew Kashiwagi.

In the final chapters of the Tale of Genji abruptly end, with Kaoru wondering if the lady he loves, Ukifune is being hidden away by Niou.

Konoe family

Tadateru Konoe is the 50th Head of the family which goes back to Kamatari Fujiwara (614-669), Michinaga Fujiwara (966-1027) the Patron and the model of Hikaru no Kimi of "Tale of Genji".

Kurdish calendar

In the early Neolithic (sometimes called the Mesolithic) period, evidence of significant shifts in tool making, settlement patterns, and subsistence living including nascent domestication of both plants and animals, which comes from such important Kurdish sites as Asiab (Asíyaw), Guran, Ganj-e Dareh (Genjí Dara), and Ali Khosh (Elí xosh).

Murasaki

Genji, in his poem, names the murasaki or purple gromwell, because its color resembles the color of the wisteria (in Japanese, fuji) thereby obliquely referring to Fujitsubo, "the Lady of the Wisteria Court", a woman he is violently in love with for the first part of the novel.

Teimoc Johnston

Teimoc's brothers, Genji Ito and Teiji Ito were accomplished Japanese composers and performers.


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