Name: Taira no Tadanori (平 忠度)
Birth/Death: (1144-1184)
Appearances: Book 1 Episode 3; Book 4 Episode 11, 16; Book 5 Episode 11, 13; Book 7 Episode 2, 4, 13, 16, 19; Book 8 Episode 3; Book 9 Episode 14, 18
Bio:
Taira no Tadanori is considered an accomplished poet for the Taira family. He is a younger brother of Taira no Kiyomori. Before the Taira leave the capital, he visits Fujiwara no Shunzei to deliver poems in an effort to end being bound by "the ephemeral world". His death occurs at the battle of Ichi-no-tani.