Name: Taira No Koremori (平 維盛)
Appearance: Book 1 Episode 5, 16; Book 2 Episode 4, 11; Book 3 Episode 3, 11, 12; Book 5 Episode 11, 12; Book 7 Episode 2-4, 6, 12, 14, 19, 20; Book 9 Episode 7; Book 10 Episode 1, 8-10, 12-14; Book 12 Episode 7-9
Birth/Death: (1158-1184)
Bio:
Koremori served as a Taira commander in the Genpei War. He was the son of Shigemori and therefore grandson of Kiyomori. The major battles he lost include the Battle of Kurikara and the Battle of Fujikawa. However, the Taira decided not to punish Koremori out of fear that the gods would be angered by their assumption that Shigemori's losses were of his own fault. The Heike are fleaing the capital and he decides to leave his family behind, for their safety, because he knows that the Genji will most likely ambush the fleeing Heike and he does not want them to die in the process. To make sure his family was safe, after they pleaded to go with him, he left behind two of his housemen, Saitogo and Saitoroku, to keep them safe. He then left with the entourage burning everything behind them.