Plenty of Nothing

Antoku

Emperor Antoku (1178-85) was enthroned at age two in place of his father the teenaged Emperor Takakura, who was forced into retirement by Tairo no Kiyomori as part of a wide-ranging Heike power grab. Antoku was Kiyomori's own grandson. Heike Monogatari spends the first three chapters building the case for the defeat of the Taira, but once that's in play sets out to create sympathy for them in their destruction, and pulls at the heartstrings with young Antoku's drowning during the final battle in the Shimonoseki Straits.  Source.

Shunkan

Several islands claim to be the place of exile of the monk Shunkan, who plotted against the Heike in 1177. His co-conspirators received pardons, but he conspicuously did not. There are Noh plays about it. This statue is in Iōjima in Kagoshima Prefecture. Source. Also.

Heike Monogatari Wax Museum

Visit the Takamatsu Heike Monogatari Wax Museum with Amanda and Jim.

Giō Departs

Source. You can read about the Giō/Hotoke/Kiyomori love triangle in The Tale of the Heike, chapter 1, part 6.

Burning Palace

This is a detail from a scroll painting of the Kamakura period entitled "Night Attack on the Sanjō Palace". It illustrates an event recorded in the Heiji Monogatari:

    The situation at the Sanjō Palace was beyond description. Soldiers were guarding all the gates, and flames were shooting up here and there. Wild flames filled the heavens, and a tempestuous wind swept up clouds of smoke. The nobles, courtiers, and even ladies-in-waiting of the women's quarters were shot down or slashed to death, for it was thought that they perhaps constituted the whole of Shinzei's family. When they rushed out, so as not to be burned by the fire, they met with arrows. When they turned back, so that they would not be struck by the arrows, they were consumed by the flames. Those who were afraid of the arrows and terrified by the flames even jumped into the wells in large numbers, and of those, too, the bottom ones in a short time had drowned, those in the middle had been crushed to death by their fellows, and those on top had been burned up by the flames themselves. The palace buildings, built one beside the other, were swept by a fierce wind, and ashes spewed forth upon the ground. How could anyone at all have saved himself? The Imperial consorts and the ladies-in-waiting were not destroyed in the burning of the A-fang Palace, but the loss of life among the "moon nobles" and "cloud courtiers" in the burning of this retreat of a Retired Emperor was indeed terrible.

Reischauer and Yamagiwa, Translations from Early Japanese Literature, 2nd ed., p. 302.

You can explore the scroll painting here.