"The bell of Gion-no-Shrine rings, and all things in the world are impermanent. The twin Sala trees say that everything that rises must fall." At the end of the Heian period, the Heike clan was about to reach the peak of power, military power, and financial resources. Taira Shigemori, a man with eyes that could see the dead, met Biwa, a girl with eyes that could see the future. The girl predicted, "You will soon perish." From an aristocratic society to a samurai society, the turbulent 15 years of historic change in Japan began.