like a fossil tree
from which we gather no flowers
sad has been my life
fated no fruit to produce

埋もれ木の
花咲くことも
なかりしに
身のなる果てぞ
悲しかりける

-Death poem of Minamoto-no-Yorimasa (源頼政 1106-80), leader of the Minamoto forces at the start of the Genpei War.

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The Genpei War (1180-1185 CE), also known as the Taira-Minamoto War, was a conflict in Japan principally between two rival clans: the Minamoto and Taira, for control of the imperial throne. The civil...

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